David Guston

About

David Guston is Foundation Professor and founding director of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. He serves as Associate Vice Provost for Discovery, Engagement and Outcomes within the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. His research focuses on the societal aspects of emerging technologies, research and development policy, technology assessment, public participation in science and technology, and the politics of science policy. Guston has served as principal investigator and director of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS-ASU), a National Science Foundation-funded Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center dedicated to studying societal impacts of nanotechnologies and improving societal capacity to understand and make informed choices. He is widely published and cited in these fields, authoring books such as 'Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Research,' which received the 2002 Don K. Price Prize from the American Political Science Association. He has co-authored and edited several influential works on science policy and responsible innovation, and is series editor of the 'Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society' and general editor of the forthcoming 'Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society.' Guston has also contributed to public science engagement, notably ideating and leading the Frankenstein Bicentennial Project, and was the lead editor of a 2017 edition of Mary Shelley's…

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Public relations
• Social Science
• Economics
• Computer Science
• Engineering ethics
• Engineering
• Psychology
• Biology

Selected publications

• A roadmap for gene drives: using institutional analysis and development to frame research needs and governance in a systems context

  Journal of Responsible Innovation · 2017-12-21 · 54 citations

  articleOpen access

  The deployment of gene drives is emerging as an alternative for protecting endangered species, controlling agricultural pests, and reducing vector-borne diseases. This paper reports on a workshop held in February 2016 to explore the complex intersection of political, economic, ethical, and ecological risk issues associated with gene drives. Workshop participants were encouraged to use systems thinking and mapping to describe the connections among social, policy, economic, and ecological variable…

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• Responsible innovation scholarship: normative, empirical, theoretical, and engaged

  Journal of Responsible Innovation · 2024 · 31 citations

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• Integrating Public Deliberation into Engineering Systems: Participatory Technology Assessment of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission

  Astropolitics · 2017-05-04 · 25 citations

  articleSenior author

  We discuss an experiment employing participatory technology assessment (pTA), a public deliberation method for eliciting lay citizen input prior to making decisions about science and technology, to inform upstream engineering decisions concerning technical aspects of NASA's Asteroid Initiative. In partnership with NASA, the Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology network conducted a pTA-based forum on NASA's Asteroid Initiative in late 2014. The goal of the exercise was to assess…

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• Understanding the movement(s) for responsible innovation

  Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2019-07-15 · 23 citations

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  This chapter presents a complex picture of the movements for responsible innovation (RI) through literature review and interview-based research, providing a historical and sociological perspective on developments within the broad RI field. The recent rise of RI in the literature and in practice is characterized as being, in part, a scientific/intellectual movement (SIM), although the movement’s aims and scope extend well beyond the scientific and intellectual communities and are not restricted m…

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• Towards the anticipatory governance of geoengineering

  2018-09-04 · 21 citations

  book-chapter

  This chapter describes what we call "anticipatory governance", which refers most directly to building the capacity to manage emerging technologies while such management is still possible. It explicates a rationale for anticipatory governance and its three conditions: foresight, engagement, and integration. The chapter suggests that starting in the mid-1970s there has been some evolution of theory, practice, and policy towards an explicit commitment to anticipatory governance to address…

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Recent grants

• NSEC - Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU

  NSF · $7.2M · 2010–2016

• Science Advanced through Virtual Institutes (SAVI): Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation

  NSF · $498k · 2013–2017

• Collaborative Research: Workshop on the Anticipatory Governance of Complex Engineered Nanomaterials, July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2014

  NSF · $34k · 2012–2016

Frequent coauthors

• Jathan Sadowski

  Monash University

  21 shared

• Erik Fisher

  Institute for the Future

  10 shared

• William C. Clark

  Harvard University

  10 shared

• Hervé Chneiweiss

  Neurosciences Paris-Seine

  10 shared

• Nancy M. Dickson

  Volkswagen Foundation

  10 shared

• Emma Frow

  Arizona State University

  9 shared

• Mahmud Farooque

  Institute for the Future

  8 shared

• Cynthia Selin

  Arizona State University

  8 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1993

• B.A.

  Yale University

  1987

• Other

  Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

  1993

Awards & honors

• 2002 Don K. Price Prize by the American Political Science As…

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