Rüland, Anna-Lena;
(2025)
“We Need a CERN for AI”: Organized Scientific Interests and Agenda-Setting in European Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy.
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10.1007/s11024-024-09568-6.
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Abstract
How do organized scientific interests shape the agenda of science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy in the European Union (EU)? I address this question by investigating how the so-called “CERN for Artificial Intelligence (AI)” initiative, a proposal to organize Europe’s AI research in a CERN-like ecosystem, made it onto the agenda of EU policymakers. Drawing on the interest group as well as agenda-setting scholarship and triangulating data from multiple sources, I argue that the Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research in Europe, a scientific interest group, pushed the initiative onto the EU’s informal (pre-decisional) policy agenda through direct and indirect lobbying. I also demonstrate that CERN for AI has so far failed to enter Brussel’s formal (decision) agenda because of turf battles between organized scientific interests; a lack of experience, resources, and time among its advocates; the fragmentation of EU AI research policy and funding; as well as the initiative’s framing. My findings add to the study of STI policymaking in the EU, which has so far focused on individual policymakers, bureaucrats, or political institutions as policy entrepreneurs while neglecting to study the role of organized scientific interests in STI policy agenda-setting.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | “We Need a CERN for AI”: Organized Scientific Interests and Agenda-Setting in European Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11024-024-09568-6 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09568-6 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | CERN, AI, STI agenda-setting, Organized scientific interests, European Union, Research policy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206513 |
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