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Newsletter. March – June 2012

FGB Newsletter. Spring at the Bassetti Foundation: March – June 2012 Index 1. Artisans and design, new names at work a. Interview with Stefano Micelli b. Piero Bassetti’s Lesson at the Domus Academy, master in business design 2. The Bassetti Foundation at the Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference 3. Geni a nudo. Ripensare ... Newsletter. March – June 2012

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Newsletter no.1 – Spring 2009

  Editorial The topics that we propose in this issue of our newsletter, which you can find below in the form of a synthetic index with links to the relevant matter online (whether interviews or press releases or news), are complex and numerous. First, we have focussed on the sometimes contradictory scenarios in which decisions ... Newsletter no.1 – Spring 2009

Newsletter n. 3 – November 2007

IN THE FOREGROUND The debate on responsibility in innovation and innovation in democracy, which the Giannino Bassetti Foundation has long been promoting, has generated significant political developments: deliberative democracy is currently at the centre of political interest, so much so that Giuseppe Adamoli, chair of the Ad Hoc Statute Committee, made an explicit reference to ... Newsletter n. 3 – November 2007

Newsletter n. 2 – June 2007

IN THE FOREGROUND The Giannino Bassetti Foundation and the Icona Interdepartmental Centre at Milan University have devised a joint training project, the Workshop on Responsible Innovation in the Public Authorities. The project is born of the conviction that innovation in and by the public authorities – in the sense of change in their structures, processes, ... Newsletter n. 2 – June 2007

Newsletter no. 1 – February 2007

EDITORIAL by Piero Bassetti The Bassetti Foundation (Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, FGB) uses the Internet as an interactive communication channel that breathes life into public discussion. To this end, the FGB website is a dynamic, multi-faceted forum for ideas from a variety of sources on issues related to responsibility in innovation. In addition to our own ... Newsletter no. 1 – February 2007

Issue no. 3 – 2005

Following the articles in May and June on the Precautionary Principle (see the “Topics” section archives for May and June), it emerges clearly that in the Bassetti Foundation website the Principle is treated as a variant on the theme of “Governance of Scientific and Technological Innovation”. On this subject, a dialogue opened by Gian Maria ... Issue no. 3 – 2005

Issue no. 2 – 2005

Innovation, medicine and responsibility. A number of documents recently posted on the Foundation website refer to this topic and to the meeting with Daniel Callahan. The Bassetti Foundation invited Callahan, one of the leading international experts in bioethics, to Milan in February (see also the previous Diary in the site). In the “Topics” section we ... Issue no. 2 – 2005

Issue no. 1 – 2005

Each year the Bassetti Foundation organises meetings with internationally renowned thinkers who have brought a highly innovative perspective to their respective fields. Thus, after the economic Richard Nelsen (Università Bocconi, June 2002) and the sociologist Bruno Latour (Politecnico di Milano, November 2003), this year the Foundation organised a meeting with Daniel Callahan (one of the ... Issue no. 1 – 2005

Issue no. 5 – 2004

This autumn the Fondazione Bassetti site has seen the development of the collaborative writing initiative we have christened Collaborate, the publication of articles and observations on the subject of GNR (Genetics, Nanotechnologies and Robotics) Technologies and the results of the “Public Participation and the Governance of Innovation” project (promoted by Lombardy Region in collaboration with ... Issue no. 5 – 2004

Issue no. 4 – 2004

From June to August 2004 the FGB site followed two main lines of discussion. The first, prompted by the publication on the site of Roberto Panzarani’s interview with TILAB (Telecom Italia’s research centre), focuses on the common ground between Training, Research and Innovation. The second, which also gave rise to a new initiative called Collaborate, ... Issue no. 4 – 2004

Issue no. 3 – 2004

Over the last few months the issues covered in this site have developed along three main lines. The main theme of the first is Daniele Navarra’s report on “Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: Governing Innovation in India’s Agricultural Markets”, written during a three-month research project for the FGB. The project included a trip to India to ... Issue no. 3 – 2004

Issue no. 2 – 2004

Last December, an “online dialogue” was opened in the Foundation site on the subject of innovation in the health field and the political responsibilities this involves. The question was taken up following an article by Maurizio De Filippis entitled “La Fabbrica della Salute”. The implications of the underlying issue, the risks of “technocracy”, in the ... Issue no. 2 – 2004