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Una breve recensione: Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility

L’inizio di quest’anno ha visto la messa on line di una nuova pubblicazione della Fondazione Bassetti intitolata Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility e scritta da Jeff Ubois con la prefazione di Piero Bassetti. La Fondazione la rilascia disponibile in edizione cartacea, in pdf scaricabile e leggibile direttamente on-line tramite Issuu, protetta da licenza Creative ... Una breve recensione: Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility

Jonathan Hankins

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

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 practitioners in ... Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility

Redazione FGB

La colla della cozza e altre fiabe biotech

(Nuovo e Utile, Firenze 28-29 settembre 2004) Anch’io ho le mie idee sulla creatività nella scienza – sul perché c’è o non c’è, se dipende dal modo di guardare la natura "con la meraviglia stupita di un bambino", dalla serendipity, dalle mode e dall’anticonformismo che suscitano, da metafore e metonimie, effetti di linguaggio, associazioni mentali ... La colla della cozza e altre fiabe biotech

Sylvie Coyaud

Deepening The Public Conversation Around Bioethics (part 2)

(An interview with Dr. Thomas Murray – …continues from the previous entry) Ubois:Great, I really wanted to ask you about cognitive enhancement. A friend of mine just came from a global meeting of international engineers, and there were large delegation from two companies, and both delegations were talking about how many people in the company ... Deepening The Public Conversation Around Bioethics (part 2)

Deepening The Public Conversation Around Bioethics (part 1)

An Interview with Dr. Thomas Murray (Thomas Murray is President of The Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institute founded in 1969 and based in Garrison, NY.) One of the world’s leading institutions in bioethics, the Hastings Center takes an approach characterized by interdisciplinary inquiry, broad public engagement, scenario-based thinking, public service, and engagement with ... Deepening The Public Conversation Around Bioethics (part 1)

An Interview With Dr. Ignacio Chapela

Ignacio Chapela is an assistant professor at University of California Berkeley, who, with colleague David Quist, discovered that illegally grown, genetically modified corn contaminated traditional heirloom corn in Oaxaca, Mexico. That discovery touched off a major controversy, and illuminates many of the issues related to responsibility in innovation that most concern the Fondazione. Jeff Ubois: ... An Interview With Dr. Ignacio Chapela

Bio- & Nano-Technology: who should decide and who will pay?

The convergence of biology, computing and robotics is the kernel of the recent progresses that applications from biotechnology to nanotechnology have produced in relation to their perceived opportunities, risks and challenges. Undoubtedly, human progress depend on the introduction and diffusion of novel and paradigm-changing technologies, but these are not neutral and carry with themselves a ... Bio- & Nano-Technology: who should decide and who will pay?

Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 6: Conclusions and suggestions

In conclusion, the introduction of modern biotechnology might not increase food production, but has the potential to reduce the impact of production methods associated with the (not so) Green Revolution on the environment. Our exploration of Indian’s uneasy situation in agricultural markets and the emerging institutional panorama governing the technology shows that current research and ... Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 6: Conclusions and suggestions

Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 5: Policy Implications

As a member of WTO, India has opted for a sui generis intellectual property legislation stated in The Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Act of 2001. According to this Act, process patents will be allowed on microbiological, biochemical and biotechnological processes (Sahai, 2004). This includes Plant Breeders Rights giving formal authority to licensed bodies ... Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 5: Policy Implications

Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 4: Analysis of global governance and local institutions: the relevance of appropriability

In India, not many firms inbred lines themselves except for the foreign suppliers. In turn, this raises a number of issues and affects the availability of crop variety to farmers as well as what local research laboratories can experiment with and then supply. It can be argued that by supplying only certain types of inbred ... Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 4: Analysis of global governance and local institutions: the relevance of appropriability

Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 3:The international dimension and its interdependencies with the local context

Innovations and new plant varieties are of great importance to increase farmers’ income and promote wealth creation in general, unfortunately purchasing new inputs or labor is often a drawback that constrain farmers’ choices and preferences. Embedding GURTs are not the only steps that the innovators are considering to protect intellectual property rights in agriculture. The ... Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 3:The international dimension and its interdependencies with the local context