Welcome to Techné
Introduction
Techné is a non-profit, scientific research organization with headquarters in the state of Colorado, USA. We operate as a collaboratory for researchers, research managers, and science policy professionals worldwide, who work together to improve our theoretical understanding of the innovation enterprise from discovery to innovation and technological change. We seek to apply that understanding to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the research, development and innovation enterprise to solve the problems of the 21st century.
Techné is a reflexive enterprise, in that we are concerned with creating, developing, disseminating and applying better knowledge about the ways in which people work together to create, develop, disseminate, and apply new knowledge.
The need
The 21st century world is a complex one with many problems and conflicts generated by a dramatic growth of populations, new technologies, and wealth; and the related phenomena of globalization. Examples include problems of environmental sustainability, energy supply, climate change, atmospheric and oceanic pollution, and issues of global health, human conflict and security.
Our global milieu is characterized as a knowledge economy or a knowledge society. Yet few of the specialists in science, engineering, policy, or other knowledge-centric fields have studied the subject of knowledge itself – its nature, creation, and application to address societal problems. At the same time, there is a growing body of research and analysis in the history, philosophy, sociology and economics of knowledge creation and dissemination that can inform and improve research, development and innovation practices. There is a growing need for new, multidisciplinary and collaborative ventures that link knowledge theory and practice in the global knowledge society. Techné was founded as a collaboratory of scholars and practitioners to address this need.
Mission
Techné organizes, manages, and conducts collaborative research, development, and demonstration projects to improve innovation practices and to inform decision makers who depend on science-based knowledge. We work to better understand how knowledge is created, represented, transferred and adopted as practice by the different groups of people who must work together to solve important societal problems within a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural or otherwise complex social context. We work to apply that understanding to inform science policy and to improve the practice of research administration.
Please explore our website to gain a more detailed understanding of who we are, what we can do, and how we work together to create and apply new knowledge about knowledge.
Feel free to contact me with any questions you might have
J. Scott Hauger, President
jshauger@technelab.org