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João Caraça

Caraça, João

Caraça, João

Senior Adviser to the Board of Administration, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, France; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science

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Senior Adviser to the Board of Administration, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, France; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science

João Caraça is the Senior Adviser to the Board of Administration and was previously the Director of the Delegation in France of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He has been Director of the Science Department of the Foundation since 1988. He integrated the Steering Committee of the European Forum on Philanthropy and Research. As Full Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão of the Universidade de Lisboa he coordinated the M.Sc. Course on Economics and Management of Science, Technology and Innovation. He has been a member of EFFLA (the European Forum of Forward Looking Activities). He was a member of the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology(EIT) from 2008 to 2012. He was also President of the Advisory Board of the Portuguese Business Association for Innovation – COTEC (2003-2011). He was Science Adviser to the President of the Portuguese Republic from 1996 to 2006 and has published over 150 scientific papers. His main interests are in science and technology policy, strategic foresight studies and in the history of knowledge and culture.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

Will Machines Overcome Human Beings?   ( Social Science )
The Ubiquity of Machines: Will Machines Overcome Human Beings? Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The article discusses the ubiquity of machines in human societies and whether machines will overcome humans. It notes that societies find order through systems of values, resource management and allocation, which are both social constructs and technological representations of their environment. Any society is inseparable from its technical systems for needs like transportation. The sustainability of...
Techno-science and Ethics   ( Knowledge, Science & Values )
 Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The emergence of science-based industries after the Second World War, characterized by high technological intensity, created deep impacts on the economy, society, and on the scientific establishment itself. Science became a critical factor of competitiveness and economic growth and technology-driven research began to attract a majority of science-devoted funding. Mainstream science turned into techno-science and curiosity-driven research became the...
The Future of Democracy: Challenges & Prospects   ( New Paradigm ), ( Peace and Security ), ( Global Governance & Law )
 Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Unprecedented speed, interconnectivity, complexity and uncertainty are impacting all spheres of global society today, presenting challenges that were not foreseen even a few years ago. The end of the Cold War was interpreted by many as the final victory for democracy and capitalism over authoritarian socialism. A quarter century after the sudden collapse of communism and the emergence of a new democratic consensus, liberal democracy itself is under threat....
Globalisation Trapped   ( New Paradigm ), ( Knowledge, Science & Values )
 Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The promise of making society progress through the direct applications of science was finally fulfilled in the mid-20th century. Science progressed immensely, propelled by the effects of the two world wars. The first science-based technologies saw the daylight during the 1940s and their transformative power was such that neither the military, nor subsequently the markets, allowed science to return intact to its curiosity-driven nest. Technoscience was...