Arie Rip is a Dutch social scientist, active in the field of Science and technology studies

Science and technology studies

Science, technology and society is the study of how social, political, and cultural values affect scientific research and technological innovation, and how these, in turn, affect society, politics and culture...

. During 1988-1989 he was the President of the international Society for Social Studies of Science

Society for Social Studies of Science

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From 2000 until 2005 he was the head of WTMC, the Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. The WTMC is a formal collaboration of Dutch researchers studying the development of science, technology and modern culture. In 2006 Rip formally retired as the Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Twente, a position he held since 1987. He has published extensively on various topics concerning the philosophy and sociology of scientific and technological developments, and on science and innovation policy. Rip has, for example, introduced the widely used method of ´Constructive Technology Assessment´, CTA. Currently he is among others a Professor at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa

South Africa

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Rip became chairman of the Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S-NET) in 2008.

Key publications

• Arie Rip (1981) Maatschappelijke Verantwoordelijkheid van Chemici, PhD-thesis Leiden University, Leiden
• Arie Rip (1994) The republic of science in the 1990s, Higher Education, Vol. 28, pp. 3–23
• Arie Rip, Thomas Misa, and Johan Schot (eds.) (1995) Managing Technology in Society: The Approach of Constructive Technology Assessment, Pinter, London/New York. ISBN 1855673401
• Johan Schot and Arie Rip (1996) The past and future of constructive technology assessment, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol 54, pp. 251–268
• Arie Rip (1997) A cognitive approach to the relevance of science, Social Science Information, Vol. 36 (4), pp. 615–640
• Harro van Lente and Arie Rip (1998) The rise of membrane technology: from rhetorics to social reality, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 28 (2), pp. 221–254
• René Kemp, Arie Rip and Johan Schot (2001) Constructing transition paths through the management of niches, In: Garud, R., Karnoe, P. (Eds.), Path Dependence and Creation, pp. 269–302
• Arie Rip (2002) Science for the 21st century. In: Tindemans, P., Verrijn-Stuart, A.
  Alex Verrijn Stuart
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  , Visser, R. (Eds.), The Future of Science and the Humanities, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, pp 99–148

External links

• http://www.mb.utwente.nl/steps/people/adjoined/rip/
• http://www.wtmc.net