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Consuming Genomes – 2/5

Event: Consuming Genomes. Title: Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United States. Date: 2011 05 16 Time: 34 min. Place: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Milan, Italy. Language: English. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/26465651 On May 16th 2011 Margaret Curnutte gave her talk at the Foundation premises on “Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United ... Consuming Genomes – 2/5

Margareth Curnutte

Consuming Genomes – 1/5

Event: Consuming Genomes. Title: Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United States. Date: 2011 05 16 Time: 10 min. Place: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Milan, Italy. Language: English. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/26465416 On May 16th 2011 Margaret Curnutte gave her talk at the Foundation premises on “Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United ... Consuming Genomes – 1/5

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Responsibility and innovation: a business perspective (part 2)

(An interview with prof. Andrew McMeekin – …continues from the previous entry) Index of questions: 13. >> We speak a lot about innovation within food at the foundation. Cristina has written about the reinvention of food and I know that food is one of your main interests. Can you speak about innovation in food? 14. ... Responsibility and innovation: a business perspective (part 2)

Responsibility and innovation: a business perspective

an interview with prof. Andrew McMeekin. Prof Andrew McMeekin works at the Manchester School of Innovation and is involved in the Sustainable Consumption Institute based at the same university. In March 2011 he was kind enough to participate in a conversation with Jonathan Hankins in which he discussed (amongst other things) innovation, responsibility, sustainability and ... Responsibility and innovation: a business perspective

Sustainable innovations: forging partnerships, knowledge exchange, and reciprocity

These are the abstracts of the papers presented in the panel “Sustainable Innovations: Forging Partnerships, Knowledge Exchange, And Reciprocity“. The panel was presented at the 2010 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Last week we published the paper by Jeff Ubois titled “Responsible Innovation / Sustainable Innovation“. You can read also: – The Call for Papers ... Sustainable innovations: forging partnerships, knowledge exchange, and reciprocity

Responsible Innovation / Sustainable Innovation

This is the paper that Jeff Ubois presented last November 2010 at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. The presentation was part of the panel organized by Cristina Orsatti entitled ‘Sustainable Innovations: Forging Partnerships, Knowledge Exchange, And Reciprocity’. Soon we shall publish the abstract of the other contributions. Responsible Innovation / Sustainable Innovation ... Responsible Innovation / Sustainable Innovation

A short review: Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility

Last week we put online a new publication of the Foundation Bassetti entitled “Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility”, written by Jeff Ubois and available in hard copy, downloadable pdf or Issuu (on line) versions. The publication is a resume’ of conversations conducted between Mr Ubois and 12 internationally renowned innovators and thinkers and features ... A short review: Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility

Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility

by Jeff Ubois Index of this page: – The booklet in Issuu – Introduction – Table Of Contents – Clip video – Cover See also a short review by Jonathan Hankins in Focus section. The Fondazione Giannino Bassetti’s new publication, Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility highlights approaches to responsibility in innovation taken by leading ... Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility

Innovation may produce unexpected side effects

The latest edition of the economics journal “Project M” features an interview with Foundation President Piero Bassetti. The interview addresses the issues that are closest to The President’s heart: how can we firstly define innovation and responsibility and secondly push innovators into thinking ethically about the consequences of their actions, given the possibly far-reaching and ... Innovation may produce unexpected side effects

Proceedings of The Network Society, Business, Innovation and Responsibility’ conference

On 22nd October 2009 a conference was held here at the Bassetti Foundation entitled ‘The Network Society, Business, Innovation and Responsibility’. The conference was organized in conjunction with PDMA and ‘Europe in my Region’, and chaired by Bassetti Foundation President Piero Bassetti. The conference was made up of 8 twenty-minute presentations and an hour-long debate. ... Proceedings of The Network Society, Business, Innovation and Responsibility’ conference

Notes from EPIC 2009: Innovation as a commodity

In September I went to Chicago for the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC 2009). EPIC draws from a mix of different communities, including design, computing, social science, and anthropology as conducted in academic and corporate research settings. The conference had several excellent presentations — Gillian Tett’s description of her professional odyssey from anthropologist in ... Notes from EPIC 2009: Innovation as a commodity

Drugs for People, not for Profit.

On Saturday 29th September 2009 an article appeared in the Guardian one of the UK’s wider read broadsheets entitled ‘Soaring Drugs Bill Threatens to Bankrupt NHS’. The article refers to a report published on the same day by left leaning think-tank Compass, an organization that describes itself as ‘Direction for the Democratic Left’. It reports ... Drugs for People, not for Profit.