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The Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag is an
independent scientific institution created with the objective of
advising the German Bundestag and its committees on matters relating
to research and technology.
TAB is operated by the Institute
for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Research Centre. In executing
its working programme the Karlsruhe Research Centre cooperates with
the Fraunhofer-Institut für
System- und Innovationsforschung (ISI), Karlsruhe,
starting from September 2003 .
TAB's task is to design and implement technology assessment (TA)
projects and to monitor and analyse important scientific and
technological trends and the associated social developments
(Monitoring, Future- and Innovation Reports,
Policy-Benchmarking-Reports).
TAB is both a member of the European
Parliamentary Technology Assessment (EPTA) Network and the German-language network NTA (Netzwerk TA).
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