Governing the AGI Transformation through Technology Ecosystems: Global Power, Technology-Institutional Co-evolution, and Societal Impact

Call for Papers
Governing the AGI Transformation through Technology Ecosystems: Global Power, Technology-Institutional Co-evolution, and Societal Impact
Journal: Technology in Society
Publisher: Elsevier
Submission Deadline: 1 November 2026

Overview
This special issue examines how generative AI and AGI are shaped by broader technology ecosystems rather than by technical capability alone. It argues that AI power concentrates where institutional capacity, coordination, and ecosystem integration are strong, and that these conditions influence global competition, openness, risk, and governance. The issue also treats AI as a global common that requires coordination across firms, universities, platforms, regulators, and international bodies.

Scope
The call invites work on systemic dependencies among AI, IoT, autonomous systems, data, and energy infrastructure. It also welcomes research on institutional capacity, agglomeration, AI superpowers, responsible governance architectures, global AI geopolitics, talent and labor pipelines, university–industry–government relations, openness versus enclosure, existential risk, and AI as a shared socio-technical foundation. Submissions should move beyond abstract debate and show how institutional ecosystems shape AI production, constraints, and governance.

Submission Information
The special issue opens for submission on 1 August 2026. Manuscripts should be submitted through Editorial Manager and authors must select “VSI: AGI Transformation”. The deadline is 1 November 2026.

Guest Editors

• Marijn Janssen — Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management, The Netherlands.

• Hans Jochen Scholl — University of Washington, Information School, USA.

• Corey Kewei Xu — Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Thrust of Innovation, Policy, and Entrepreneurship, Society Hub, China.

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