Institute of Technology Assessment

The ITA is the only institution in Austria that is entirely devoted to technology assessment (TA).

The institute organises for many years the internationally renowned annual TA conferences in Vienna.

[1] Moreover, it serves as a national and international networking node of the TA community.

Founded in 1985 as a working group within the former "Institute for Socio-economic Development Research and Technology Assessment" (Institut für Sozio-ökonomische Entwicklungsforschung und Technikbewertung, ISET), since the end of 1987 independent as "Technology Assessment Unit (TAU)" ("Forschungsstelle für Technikbewertung ", FTB)); since 1994 an institute (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Since 2006 Michael Nentwich, law and STS (science and technology studies) scholar, directs the institute.