The multicriteria nature of choosing and evaluating technology policy can be dealt with by outranking methods, enabling us to avoid weak approaches such as following rules or routines or imitating best practices on one hand, and fictitious multicriteria methods on the other. Outranking methods...

Two main paradigms split the core of the debate on governance structures: the maxi-minimizing and the satisfacing paradigms. Some differences between the two has been hidden by the (only apparently) similarity of the quot;maximumquot; and quot;maximalquot; concepts. If the maximizing behavior...