The TAB has been operating as an independet scientific unt at the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since 1990. It is based on a contract with the German Bundestag.

The head of TAB is appointed by KIT in consultation with the Bundestag's Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment, which acts as the steering committee. Since 2002, the head of ITAS, Professor Dr. Armin Grunwald, has been scientifically for results of TAB's work and represents them to the German Bundestag.

Since September 2013, the KIT has been cooperating with the IZT - Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment gGmbH and the Institute for Innovation and Technology (iit) of the VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH in the operation of TAB.

The TAB and its interdisciplinary team are located in Berlin.

TAB is a member of the  European network of parliamentary TA institutions (EPTA Network) as well as of the German-speaking network Netzwerk TA (NTA). In addition, it is networked with thematically relevant scientific institutions and experts at home and abroad through its institutional integration and the many years of scientific and advisory practice of its staff.

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EPTA

• Members' Project Database (1985 - now)
• Policy Briefs and Reports of the Members (1988 - now)

NTA

• Calendar of the openTA portal of the NTA: events of the TA network and other dates with TA relevance
• openTA Publication Service brings together the publications of the cooperating NTA member institutions in a database and supplements them with further sources that have a TA-relevance