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The period during which consequential arrangements can still be changed at acceptable cost: when information is scarcest, and when governance has the most leverage.

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Early in a technology's development change is easy but its consequences are poorly understood; once the consequences are clear, change has become costly and slow.

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The Social Control of Technology (opens in a new tab)

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Anticipatory governance is a broad societal capacity to act on emerging technologies while their management is still possible, through foresight, engagement, and integration.

Our reading: Source-level citation pending passage review. Guston's definition builds on earlier work with Sarewitz and on nanotechnology governance programs.

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Understanding 'anticipatory governance' (opens in a new tab)

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Responsible innovation has been framed through four dimensions: anticipation, reflexivity, inclusion, and responsiveness.

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Developing a framework for responsible innovation (opens in a new tab)

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  1. The Social Control of Technology

    Frances Pinter, London · book · publication date not recorded · 1980 edition, 200 pages

    The link is an Internet Archive library record with restricted lending, not an open copy. Locators refer to chapter 1. Passage-level review is pending.

    collingridge-social-control · Last checked 2026-09-06 · claims and passages

  2. Understanding 'anticipatory governance'

    Social Studies of Science (SAGE) · scholarship · publication date not recorded · Social Studies of Science 44(2), 2014, pp. 218–242

    The DOI resolves to the publisher's record; the article is behind a subscription. Passage-level review is pending.

    guston-anticipatory-governance · Last checked 2026-09-06 · claims and passages

  3. Developing a framework for responsible innovation

    Research Policy (Elsevier) · scholarship · publication date not recorded · Research Policy 42(9), 2013, pp. 1568–1580

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    stilgoe-responsible-innovation · Last checked 2026-09-06 · claims and passages

  4. Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events

    The Economic Journal (Royal Economic Society) · scholarship · publication date not recorded · Economic Journal 99(394), March 1989, pp. 116–131

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    arthur-lock-in · Last checked 2026-09-06 · claims and passages