The radical openness of science and innovation: Why uncertainty is inherent in the openness towards the future.

To meet the pressing challenges for Europe, EU Commissioner Carlos Moedas proposed more openness in science, innovation and towards the world. But society and its decision‐makers should embrace the notion that science is even more radically open towards the future. It thrives on the cusp of uncertainty.

Engaging with the political imaginaries of science: Near misses and future targets.

The current economic and financial crisis is also a political crisis that requires a rethinking of public engagement with science. In the past, the dominant focus of science, technology and society (STS) has led to a blind spot: political understanding and engagement of policy-makers and politicians with science, which is an integral part of any public engagement. Arguably, it is bound to and emerges from what Ezrahi calls collective political imaginaries.

A voice for science in Europe. An interview with Helga Nowotny, President of the European Research Council. Interview by Holger Breithaupt.

An interview with Helga Nowotny, the new President of the European Research Council's Scientific Council about budgets, bureaucracy and bringing changes to the European research landscape

Wish fulfillment and its discontents.

On the uneasy relationship between the life sciences and the humanities