Frontmatter -- Technology Policy in the Process of Change: Changing Paradigms in Research and Technology Policy? -- From Socio-economic to Socially Oriented Innovation Policy -- Technology Policy: The Interaction between Governments and Markets -- Promote or Regulate: The Dilemma of Innovation Policy -- New Technology Policy Concepts: Some Reflections on Technology and Work Humanization in West Germany -- Designing Sustainability of Industrial Society -- Constructive Technology Assessment: A New Approach for Technology Assessment Developed in the Netherlands and its Significance for Technology Policy -- Integrating Social and Environmental Costs into High-tech Industrial Development Planning: Experiences and Expectations in the United States -- Socially Oriented Technology Policy in Germany: Experiences of a North Rhine-Westphalian Programme -- National Policies Devoted to Technology and the Environment in France: Towards an Integrative Approach? -- The Historical Development of Japanese Science and Technology Policy in Conjunction with Socio-economic Policy -- National Systems of Innovation and Technology Policy: The Case of Denmark -- Towards a Social Orientation in Finnish Technology Policy -- Technology Policy in Spain: Issues, Concerns and Problems -- Technology Policy under Conditions of Social Partnership: Development and Problems of an Integrated Strategy in Austria -- Biographical Notes -- Subject Index -- Name Index