Helsinki Institute of Science and Technology Studies

University of Helsinki (UH) and Aalto University (AU) have jointly established a network unit Helsinki Institute of Science and Technology Studies in 2004. The unit aims at strengthening research, graduate and post-graduate education in the field of science and technology studies (STS) in the two universities as well as to provide an institutional setting for research on science and technology at international level.

The unit promotes high quality research in the field of science, technology and innovation studies. The focus of research is on:

• the production of scientific knowledge and technical innovations, and their diffusion to the society and economic activities;
• the preconditions of science and technology processes as well as their societal and environmental consequences
• the development of methods and practices through which the results of research could be both relevant and applicable in decision-making.