Laura Draetta is associate professor at Télécom Paris, researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Innovation (I3), associate researcher at the Chair of Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development, UQAM, Montreal, associate researcher at the C2S Chair, and guest researcher at the University of California at Berkley, Department of History of Science and Technology.
Her areas of research lie at the intersection of environmental sociology, innovation sociology and science and technology studies (STS). She is mainly interested in the processes of confrontation that associate, and sometimes oppose, technology, environment and society in the construction of innovation. Drawing on national and international fields of investigation (Italy, China, United States), her work focuses on two main research areas: Industrial Environmentalism and Responsible Innovation in the era of the risk society, as well as Science, Technology, Environment and Audience.
Keywords: Sustainable development, Industrial environmentalism, Responsible innovation, CSR, EPR, Green-IT, Eco-design, e-waste, Socio-technical controversies, Social perception of risk, RFID, Smart meters, Quantified self.