Dr. Stefania Sardo
- Scientific staff
- Research group “Socio-Technical Energy Futures”
- Room: 302
- Phone: +49 721 608-22501
- stefania sardo ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
Postfach 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Fields of work
- Socio-technical transitions
- Science and Technology Studies (STS)
- Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
- Governance of sociotechnical systems transformations
- Innovation and responsibility
Professional background
| since 2022 | Scientific staff member in ITAS |
| 2018 - 2022 | Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, Department of Science, Technology and Society, Technische Universität München (DE) |
| 2014 - 2018 | Ph.D. Innovation and Entrepreneurship, BI Norwegian Business School (NO) Lecturer at the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, BI Norwegian Business School (NO) |
| 2012 - 2014 | Associate researcher, European Centre for Living Technology, Ca’ Foscari University (IT) |
| 2009 - 2011 | Associate researcher, Economics Department, Modena and Reggio Emilia University (IT) |
| 2005 - 2008 | M.A. International Management, Modena and Reggio Emilia University (IT) |
| 2002 - 2005 | B.A. International Economics, University of Padova (IT) |
Selected publications
Sardo, S.; Callegari, B.; Misganaw, B. (2023, forthcoming)
Everything and nothing: a critical review of the “social” in Innovation and Entrepreneurship studies, Novation: Critical Studies of Innovation IV
Sardo, S. (2022)
The naturalized disharmony of a socio-technical system: understanding safety in the Oil and Gas drilling industry. In: Callegari, Misganaw, Sardo (Eds.) The Social Foundations of Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Concepts, Methods and Applications, Edward Elgar Publishing
Sardo, S.; Parmiggiani, E.; Hoholm, T. (2021)
Not in transition: inter-infrastructural governance and the politics of repair in the Norwegian offshore industry, Energy Research and Social Science, 75, 102047
Anzoise, V.; Sardo, S. (2016)
Dynamic systems and the role of evaluation: The case of the Green Communities project, Evaluation and program planning, 54, 162-172
Publications
Technology discontinuation as a continuous process: diesel, sustainability, and the politics of delay
2025. Research Policy, 54 (4), 105198. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2025.105198
No easy way out: towards a framework concept of long-term governance
2025. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 15 (1), 9. doi:10.1186/s13705-025-00513-3
A framework concept of Long-term Governance
2024. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology and the Society for Social Studies of Science: Conference Making and Doing Transformations (EASST/4S 2024), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 16–19, 2024
Everything and nothing: A critical review of the “social” in Innovation and Entrepreneurship studies
2023. NOvation, 4, 63–88. doi:10.5380/nocsi.v0i4.91114
Discontinuation inception: a theoretical view
2023. Italian Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology Italia Conference (STS 2023), Bologna, Italy, June 28–30, 2023
No easy way out: towards a framework concept of Long-term Governance
2023. Energy, Environment and Societies in Crises: ESA RN12 mid-term and Energy and society Network. 6th Energy and Society Conference (2023), Trento, Italy, September 6–7, 2023