TransforM aims to advance social science for highly technologized societies to better understand and shape the transformative power of technology. The goal is to better understand why, when, and how technologies become socially transformative, and to critically assess and inform transformation pathways ‘all the way through’ – from the early stages of their emergence to their wider socio-economic impact.
The application was submitted by the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Other participating institutions are the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, and at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, the Institute for Leadership and Organization with Prof. Martin Högl and the ifo Center for the Economics of Innovation and Digital Transformation with Prof. Oliver Falk. Cooperation partners are Bayern Innovativ, the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation - bidt, DEEP Ecosystems, the Deutsches Museum, the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and UnternehmerTUM.
TransforM tackles the dual challenge of advancing fundamental social science for technologized societies and rethinking technology development through a social science lens head on. As an interdisciplinary social science cluster with a principal focus on technology, it is to augment current theories and methods to comprehensively understand and help shape transformative technology to better serve diverse societal needs..
More information: https://transform-cluster.de/