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The rise of emerging technologies in the last decades revolutionized product and services across industries from healthcare to finance, from chemistry to energy, and still hold the promise of ground-breaking innovations and commercial applications. The novelty, rapidity, and radical changes that are brought about by emerging technologies, however, also result in various uncertainties concerning the effects of novel products and services to individual health, social practices, and the environment. Issues arise concerning, for example, accountability and transparency of scientific and technical advancements, public awareness and participation, definition and protection of intellectual property, industrial policy, and international competitiveness. Scholarly research in social science on these challenges broadly developed around three themes, namely the understanding of emerging technologies and their implications, the formulation of regulatory approaches, and the appraisal of regulatory instruments and practices.
 
While these studies elucidated the discourse, approaches, and instruments to regulate emerging technologies, research on this topic is still deficient in at least three respects. First, research on the regulation of emerging technologies should pay more attention to the role of risk, how it is distributed across entities involved (i.e., individuals, businesses, investors, governments), and how this relates to the institutional arrangements that regulate risk definition and allocation. Second, research on the regulation on emerging technologies should analyse the role that trust plays in the relationships between the entities involved in the regulatory arena (i.e., the public, scientists, companies, regulators), and how trust relates to their uncertainty, knowledge and power. Third, research on the regulation of emerging technologies should aim to explain how governance configurations help conciliate conflicting stakes (i.e., national competitiveness, profitability, individual health and safety, environmental protection) and orient towards making advantageous regulatory policy decisions.
 
Accordingly, this call for a Special Issue in Governance aims to attract original research papers that address, but are not limited to, one or more of the following questions:
 
· How is risk from the use of emerging technologies defined, and how does definition of this risk affect regulatory policy and practices?
· How do institutional conditions affect the definition of the risk from the use of emerging technologies?
· What affects the allocation of risks from the use of emerging technologies, and how do entities involved cope with allocated risk?
· What affects public trust towards emerging technologies and their applications, and towards scientists, companies, and regulators?
· What is the role of public trust in the governance of emerging technologies, especially in relation to uncertainty, knowledge and power of the entities involved?
· How does regulatory governance help conciliate conflicting stakes of entities involved in emerging technologies?
· What features of regulatory governance help make regulatory policy decisions that are most advantageous for the economy and society?
· Which system of regulatory governance is most advantageous to promote national competitiveness?
 
The call welcomes both empirically-based theoretical and normative theoretical papers.

The rise of emerging technologies in the last decades revolutionized products and services across industries from healthcare to finance, from chemistry to energy, and still hold the promise of ground-breaking innovations and commercial applications. The novelty, rapidity, and radical changes that are brought about by emerging technologies, however, also result in various uncertainties concerning the effects of novel products and services to individual health, social practices, and the environment. Issues arise concerning, for example, accountability and transparency of scientific and technical advancements, public awareness and participation, definition and protection of intellectual property, industrial policy, and international competitiveness.

This panel aims to advance research on the regulation and governance of emerging technologies by especially relating them to risk and trust. We expect studies that pay attention to the role of risk, how it is distributed across entities involved (i.e., individuals, businesses, investors, governments), and how this relates to the institutional arrangements that regulate risk definition and allocation. We welcome research that analyses the role that trust plays in the relationships between the entities involved in the regulatory arena (i.e., the public, scientists, companies, regulators), and how trust relates to their uncertainty, knowledge and power. Furthermore, Furthermore, contributions could aim to explain how governance configurations help conciliate conflicting stakes (i.e., national competitiveness, profitability, individual health and safety, environmental protection) and orient towards making advantageous regulatory policy decisions.
 
Accordingly, this call for a Special Issue in Governance aims to attract original research papers that address, but are not limited to, one or more of the following questions:
 
· How is risk from the use of emerging technologies defined, and how does definition of this risk affect regulatory policy and practices?
· How do institutional conditions affect the definition of the risk from the use of emerging technologies?
· What affects the allocation of risks from the use of emerging technologies, and how do entities involved cope with allocated risk?
· What affects public trust towards emerging technologies and their applications, and towards scientists, companies, and regulators?
· What is the role of public trust in the governance of emerging technologies, especially in relation to uncertainty, knowledge and power of the entities involved?
· How does regulatory governance help conciliate conflicting stakes of entities involved in emerging technologies?
· What features of regulatory governance help make regulatory policy decisions that are most advantageous for the economy and society?
· Which system of regulatory governance is most advantageous to promote national competitiveness?
 
The call welcomes both empirically-based theoretical and normative theoretical papers.