In Europe, and elsewhere, there is a move to include citizens at early stages of R&D concerning the effects of new technologies in society.

This is combined with a growing recognition that early interactions with potential users can provide insights to improve the design and market embedment of a technology.

Also, engagement between the developers of a technology and public agencies is seen as a means to pave-the-way to productive tech-regulatory landscapes that allow safe and beneficial technologies teQnode can both map these shifts in sci-society interactions and/or provide tools and approaches to facilitate.

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