Evaluation and Development of Economic and Administrative Process Technologies for Health Care
Evaluation and Development of Economic and Administrative Process Technologies for Health Care

Summary/Abstract: "Technology policy and governance of technology cannot ride solely on technology itself, because technology is intertwined with political, administrative, sociological, cultural and economic issues. Technology policy and technology governance need to adapt knowledge on those issues for their purposes. In dealing with this challenge, let us coin the neologism ‘economic and administrative process technologies.’ This term can be seen as an adjunct to such key targets of technology policies, technology programmes and their projects as information and communication technologies (ICTs), biotechnologies and new materials technologies. The empirical references of the paper are the Finnish technology policies and technology governance, although the argument runs in a more general than only a country-specific level. Summarising the results of the paper, first, from an international perspective, economic and administrative process technologies supplementing their engineering, medicine and natural science counterparts are far from fully elaborated."

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