Raymund Werle

 

 

 

Biographical Sketch

 

 
Raymund Werle was principal research associate with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies at Cologne. After official retirement in summer 2009 he continues research as a visiting scholar at the Institute. His research is focused on the interaction of institutional and technological innovations with a special interest in intellectual property rights and the commodification of knowledge. Earlier research includes the development of telecommunications and data networks, the Internet in particular, and their structural and societal consequences. Raymund Werle has published in the area of science and technology studies, development and governance of large technical systems, organizations and processes of technical standardization but also in the sociology of law and the legal profession and research methodology.

Raymund Werle received a Diploma (M.A.) in Economics and Sociology and a Ph.D. in Political Science. He was educated at the Universities of Bonn, Cologne, Mannheim and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (postgraduate DAAD fellow). Raymund Werle held research and teaching positions at the Universities of Bielefeld, Mannheim and Heidelberg and at the Research Center on Nuclear Energy in Karlsruhe.

In summer 1997 he was visiting scholar at the Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in October 2003 he visited the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR), London School of Economics and Political Science, and in May 2004 he was visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS), Inter-University Research Centre (IFZ) Graz, Austria. Raymund Werle served as a member of the Steering Committee of the German American Academic Council's Project "Global Networks and Local Values", coordinated by the U. S. National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB).

He is associate editor of "Science Studies" and co-editor of the online journal "Science, Technology & Innovation Studies".