Managing the Responsible Emergence of Science and Innovation in Society
This week saw the digital release of Richard Owen, John Bessant and Maggie Heintz's book entitled Responsible Innovation: Managing the Responsible Emergence of Science and Innovation in Society. - More
by Redazione FGB, 30 April 2013 Permalink
Read also: A Handbook for Responsible Innovation
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Public Partecipation, Publications, Responsibility and Science
Italian Design: achieving the improbable, innovating with beauty
On 28 February 2013 in Rome at the Farnesina, the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs presented The Year of Italian Culture in the USA. Fondazione Giannino Bassetti has accepted the challenge, and has for some time been working to convince Milan and Italy to take a road towards the economy of beauty. Not to replicate the status quo, but to foresee a scenario beyond the contingent, something improbable to achieve. - More
by Redazione FGB, 24 April 2013 Permalink
Read also: Design e Responsabilità (video in English) and Artigianato e design come nuove forme del lavoro
Categories biotechnology, genetics
Read also: Innovation and Politics and An Ethics For Emerging Technologies
A Report On Responsible Research and Innovation
As a follow up to my post regarding René Von Schomberg's Matrix for Responsible Innovation I would like to point readers towards a freely downloadable document entitled 'A Report On Responsible Research and Innovation'. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 26 February 2013 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Report, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
An Interview with Chris Howard, CEO of Libboo
In this interview Jonny hankins poses questions of responsibility and ethics surrounding Libboo's use and patenting requests for an innovative method of measuring how certain individuals may be able to exert influence over others. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 31 January 2013 Permalink
Read also: Our publications and Intellectual Property and Responsibility interview with Mario Biagioli
Nuffield Council on Bioethics Biotechnologies Report
In December of last year the Nuffield Council on Bioethics published a report entitled Emerging Biotechnologies: technology, choice and the public good. In this post Jonny Hankins reviews the report and its findings and recommendations. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 18 January 2013 Permalink
Global Risk 2012, World Economic Forum Report
Recently the World Economic Forum released its Global Risk 2012 report, the seventh in an annual series of such reports and an initiative of their Risk Response Network. In this article Jonny Hankins outlines their findings and conclusions. - More
by Redazione FGB, 7 January 2013 Permalink
Risk and Responsibility in Innovation. Videos.
On November 27, 2012 at Università Bocconi, Michael Bruch held a lecture on the role insurers can play in the development of innovative technologies such as nanotechnologies. Here the videos and other materials. - More
by Redazione FGB, 4 January 2013 Permalink
Read also: Risk and Responsibility in Innovation.
Risk and Responsibility in Innovation.
On November 27, 2012 at Università Bocconi, Michael Bruch, Head of Research & Development - Risk Consulting at Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty (AGCS) and risk expert at the Allianz Center for Technology (AZT), held a lecture on the role insurers can play in the development of innovative technologies such as nanotechnologies. - More
by Redazione FGB, 4 January 2013 Permalink
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Read also: the presentation of the lecture and other lectures in Sapere, fare, potere. Verso un'innovazione responsabile
Categories Innovation and Responsibility
A Handbook for Responsible Innovation
It is a collection of articles written by Jonny Hankins over the last 2 years. The handbook is divided into 'macro arguments': synthetic biology and nanotechnology, bioethics and information and knowledge, with the opening chapter offering an overview of developments in thinking around responsible innovation. - More
by Redazione FGB, 6 December 2012 Permalink
Read also: other FGB publications and Preventative governance
Categories Nanotechnology, Publication
Categories Innovation and politics, Roboethics
November 2012. The Revamped Bassetti Foundation Website
Dear readers, surfers and collaborators, after 6 years we are redesigning, and we ask your opinions. The new site is still a work in progress, we merely ask you to go and visit the pages. You will find the same articles presented slightly differently, and many new ways to find and reach them. - More
by Alessandro Scoscia, Redazione FGB, Tommaso Correale Santacroce, 6 November 2012 Permalink
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Read also: "Where are we going?"
Categories This web site
Read also: A threat to internet democracy? and Internet, the new superpower?
Categories Internet
Read also: Roboethics' blog and Robotics: a new science
Read also: Design-Push Innovation: Changing Accepted Meanings, an interview with Roberto Verganti
Categories Design
Read also: I nuovi traguardi dell'open science by Angela Simone
Categories Site
Categories Publications, Recensioni
Read also: Neuroscienze e futuro militare and Springer Handbook of Robotics
Categories enhancement
Read also: Fare la cosa giusta and 28 Seeds, a review of the event.
Uncertainty and disquiet
The call for papers "Who is Responsible" has invited ethnographic reflections on the diverse meanings and use of a term, "responsibility" which "has become such a conspicuous terms in contemporary thought styles", to highlight its salience in contemporary culture and governance. - More
by Cristina Grasseni, 23 July 2012 Permalink
Categories Responsibility, anthropology
Categories Report
Categories biotechnology
Categories Bioethics, Innovation and Responsibility
Categories Conference, Responsibility and Science
The potential role of science communication in Pakistan
Public communication of science and technology is generating knowledge and a rapid awareness in a variety of areas including rural, agro-based and related disciplines. Quick scientific and technical packages are developed for dissemination to the pertinent clients mostly located in countryside areas. - More
by Saima Siddiqui, 5 June 2012 Permalink
Who's Responsible?
The 2012 European Association of Social Anthropologists conference (EASA) takes place at Université Paris Nanterre in July of this year, and long time collaborator Cristina Grasseni will participate on a panel on behalf of the Bassetti Foundation, as part of an event entitled 'Who's Responsible?' - More
by Jonny Hankins, Redazione FGB, 30 May 2012 Permalink
Categories Conference, Innovation and Responsibility
Architecture and public science communication
by Patricia Ríos Cabello. The role of aesthetics and design in science and technology museum. The collaboration of scientists, architects, and the public itself, must be kept in mind as an asset to communicate scientific knowledge and promote public engagement. - More
by Patricia Ríos Cabello, 25 May 2012 Permalink
Categories Design, Responsibility and Science
'It feels like the right thing to do': ethical perspectives of open science
by Ann Grand. Open science. Developed partly as a practical means to support multi-site and multi-national collaborations, it also embodies a philosophical approach to the conduct of science. - More
by Ann Grand, 24 May 2012 Permalink
Categories Open culture, Responsibility and Science
Responsibility and Communication at PCST 2012 - part 2
In Florence on 20th April 2012 the Bassetti Foundation organized a seminar as part of the Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference (PCST 2012). This international conference hosted scientists, delegates from scientific institutions, researchers and journalists. What follows is a review of the papers and video of the seminar. - More
by Margherita Fronte, 22 May 2012 Permalink
Read also: PCST 2012 Notes on the Bassetti Foundation promoted panel in Florence, Italy, 20th April 2012 and the first part of the report
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Categories Open access, Responsibility and Science
Responsibility and Communication at PCST 2012 - part 1
In Florence on 20th April 2012 the Bassetti Foundation organized a seminar as part of the Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference (PCST 2012). This international conference hosted scientists, delegates from scientific institutions, researchers and journalists. What follows is a review of the papers and video of the seminar. - More
by Margherita Fronte, 22 May 2012 Permalink
Read also: PCST 2012 Notes on the Bassetti Foundation promoted panel in Florence, Italy, 20th April 2012 and the second part of the report
Leggi in Italiano
Categories Open access, Responsibility and Science
Read also: Copenhagen il caso e il testo
Categories Bioethics, Conference, Innovation and Responsibility, Lecture, Responsibility and Science, This web site
Read also: Changing Accepted Meanings
Categories Sustainability
Read also: A Conversation with Pallavi Phartiyal - part 1 or read in Issuu
Categories Democracy and Participation, Innovation and politics
Categories Democracy and Participation, Innovation and politics
International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference
Notes on the Bassetti Foundation promoted panel in Florence, Italy, 20th April 2012. In drawing the framework for the seminar we began from a passage that we retain necessary, that of the passage from the individual responsibility held by the communicator to the stronger collective responsibility of the system. - More
by Redazione FGB, 6 April 2012 Permalink
Read also: PCST12: Quality, Honesty and Beauty
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Categories Conference
A Research Strategy for Engineered Nanotechnologies
Earlier this year the National Research Council of the National Academies published a document entitled 'A Research Strategy for Environmental, Health and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanotechnologies' - More
by Redazione FGB, 16 March 2012 Permalink
Read also: Hands-on nanotechnology in Milan
Layers of Uncertainty
A report from the third Science Technology Policy Crossroads symposium at the Harvard University Science Centre. The symposium was entitled 'Layers of Uncertainty: Conversations on the role of uncertainty in science and technology policy'. - More
by Redazione FGB, 8 March 2012 Permalink
Read also: La società del rischio by Giuseppe O. Longo
Categories Conference, Responsibility and Politics
Intellectual Property and Responsibility (part 3)
Professor Biagioli was kind enough to dedicate some of his time to the Foundation in the form of a conversation with Jonny Hankins. Topics covered were varied, but the major theme running through the discussion is responsibility in the patenting process. (Part 3) - More
by Jonny Hankins, 21 February 2012 Permalink
Intellectual Property and Responsibility (part 2)
Professor Biagioli was kind enough to dedicate some of his time to the Foundation in the form of a conversation with Jonny Hankins. Topics covered were varied, but the major theme running through the discussion is responsibility in the patenting process. (Part 2) - More
by Jonny Hankins, 21 February 2012 Permalink
Intellectual Property and Responsibility
Professor Biagioli was kind enough to dedicate some of his time to the Foundation in the form of a conversation with Jonny Hankins. Topics covered were varied, but the major theme running through the discussion is responsibility in the patenting process. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 21 February 2012 Permalink
Read also: Bruno Latour in FGB
2011 and Beyond for the Bassetti Foundation
2011 was once more a busy year for the Bassetti Foundation, marking the beginnings of several projects that will run through 2012 and beyond. The following is a review of some of the major events that occurred throughout the year, things to look forward to in the new year now unfolding, a taster of the Foundation's work and a picture of its approach in addressing the problem of responsibility in innovation. - More
by Redazione FGB, 23 January 2012 Permalink
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Categories Innovation and Responsibility, This web site
Ethics, Human Enhancement and Genetics. Report and Video
by Virginia Sanchini. The aim of the workshop was to investigate how the latest progress in biotechnologies impacts our understanding of the traditional matters of moral and political philosophy. Report, Video and Photos. - More
by Redazione FGB, 9 December 2011 Permalink
Categories Philosophy, Responsibility and Politics
Read also: Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility by Jeff Ubois
Categories Innovation and politics, Interviews
Read also: Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility by Jeff Ubois
Categories Innovation and politics, Interviews
Read also: Innovating Food, Innovating the Law
Categories Bioethics, Food and Feed
Dan Sperber. New ways to describe and structure the societies
by Angela Simone. As if it were recently invented, the word interdisciplinarity can ever more regularly be heard in discussions both outside and within academia. After years of pushing towards... - More
by Redazione FGB, 29 August 2011 Permalink
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Categories Lecture
Read also: Richard R. Nelson in FGB and Responsible Innovation / Sustainable Innovation by Jeff Ubois
Leggi in Italiano
Categories Lecture
A discussion with Marta Milani about sport
In view of the news that South African athlete Oscar Pistorius (often referred to as blade runner due to his prosthetic limbs) has run the qualifying time for the 2012 Olympics in London, Jonny Hankins speaks to Italian National 400 metre runner Marta Milani about the human body, technology in sports and their effects upon performance. - More
by Redazione FGB, 20 July 2011 Permalink
Read also: Le lame di Pistorius, and Nature, New Yorker on Cognitive Enhancement
Categories Interviews
Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United States
On May 16th 2011 Margaret Curnutte gave her talk at the Foundation premises on "Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United States" as part of her Harvard Bassetti scholarship. Video, photos and other materials - More
by Redazione FGB, 12 July 2011 Permalink
Itinerary: Communicating Science
In light of the Bassetti Foundation's announcement of their involvement in the 2012 Public Communication of Science and Technology Network conference and related call for abstracts for funding, Jonny Hankins reviews some of the related materials available on the foundation website. - More
by Redazione FGB, 20 June 2011 Permalink
Read also: itinerary: Conflict of Interest in Science
Prof. Colin Sage on Food and McMeekin
The following comment was written and sent to the Bassetti Foundation by Prof. Colin Sage, senior lecturer within the Geography Department at University College Cork, and refers to the interview with Prof. Andrew McMeekin posted on this site on 20th april 2011. - More
by Redazione FGB, 26 May 2011 Permalink
Categories Food and Feed, Sustainability
Categories Innovation, Policy
Responsibility and innovation: a business perspective (part 2)
In March 2011 prof. Andrew McMeekin was kind enough to participate in a conversation with Jonny Hankins in which he discussed (amongst other things) innovation, responsibility, sustainability and governance. This is the second part. - More
by Redazione FGB, 21 April 2011 Permalink
Categories Interviews
Responsibility and innovation: a business perspective
In March 2011 prof. Andrew McMeekin was kind enough to participate in a conversation with Jonny Hankins in which he discussed (amongst other things) innovation, responsibility, sustainability and governance. - More
by Redazione FGB, 20 April 2011 Permalink
Categories Interviews
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... - More
by Redazione FGB, 10 February 2011 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Sustainability
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'. - More
by Redazione FGB, 2 February 2011 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Read also: Jeff Ubois' blog
Categories Conference
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Public Partecipation, Responsibility and Science, Sustainability
Read also: the similar article in 2009
Leggi in ItalianoThe 'moral imperative' of biotech food
Among the many U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks is one that details U.S. pressure on the Vatican to change its stance on agricultural biotechnology. U.S. officials stated "We will continue to press the "moral imperative" of biotech... - More
by Redazione FGB, 4 January 2011 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Read also: Public Participation and the Governance of Innovation and Il potenziale sovversivo di Wikileaks (in Italian)
Categories Policy, biotechnology
Sustainable Innovation at the American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Last week the American Anthropological Association (AAA) hosted a discussion about sustainable innovation. Grounded in observations of social practice in particular localities, two points were particularly striking. One was the close relationship between responsibility and sustainability; to be responsible, innovation must be sustainable... - More
by Redazione FGB, 2 December 2010 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Read also: AAA Annual Meeting 2010 and AAA Meeting - Sustainable Innovations
Change makers
by Peter Goldmark. On the Changemakers site, if you click through to Competitions, you will find a series of global competitions seeking proposals to "change" or "improve" a particular system, or approach a specific problem, sponsored usually by a corporation or non-profit agency. - More
by Redazione FGB, 11 November 2010 Permalink
Read also: Workshop on the G. Bassetti Foundation
Categories Public Partecipation
Practicing Responsibilities: social engagement, controversy and innovation
At the Trento EASST conference, held 1-4th September 2010, workshop/track 32. "Practicing Responsibilities" was co-chaired by Cristina Grasseni (University of Bergamo / Bassetti Foundation); Luca Guzzetti (University of Genova) and Giuseppe Pellegrini (University of Padova) within the theme "social engagement, controversy and innovation". - More
by Redazione FGB, 4 November 2010 Permalink
Read also: What's the social and ethical responsibility of basic science? by Maximilian Fochler and Practicing Responsibility
Categories Responsibility
Categories Public Partecipation
Preventative governance
On Wednesday 7th July, Professor David Guston of the Arizona State University presented the work of the CSPO (Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes) and the CSN-ASU (Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University) at an invitation seminar held here at the Bassetti Foundation... - More
by Redazione FGB, 16 July 2010 Permalink
Read also: The Rightful Place Of Science Conference, Regulating nanotechnology through private actors? by B. Laurent and Responsibility in Innovation interview with L. Gasman
Leggi in ItalianoA man, his history and his DNA
One of humankind's oldest needs - to know oneself. One of the most modern technologies - the DNA testing of a single individual. This theme was raised during the round table discussion that was held in The Bassetti Foundation conference suite. - More
by Redazione FGB, 2 July 2010 Permalink
Read also: Go Ask Your Father about DNA by Jonny Hankins
leggi in ItalianoDifferent forms of expertise
On Monday 3rd of May a seminar was held in The Bassetti Foundation conference suite with Dr Wiebe E. Bijker, Professor of Technology and Society at The University of Maastricht in Holland. we now make the video and audio recordings of the seminar available in English. - More
by Redazione FGB, 12 May 2010 Permalink
Read also: Il ruolo degli esperti nella democrazia by Margherita Fronte
Memory and Responsibility
Last month, with the support of the Bassetti Foundation, more than 60 people met at the Internet Archive in San Francisco to discuss the future of personal digital archives and the implications of innovations and new technologies related to personal and collective memory. ... - More
by Redazione FGB, 24 March 2010 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Read also: Innovation, Knowledge and Intellectual Property: the Risks of WTO Regulations by Daniele Navarra and Participatory design: an Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale
Drones and other robots of war
Recently the press has been full of articles addressing the legality or illegality of the military use of unmanned drone aircraft in the war against terror. Their use as well as the use of other human controlled robot weaponry presents a series of ethical, moral, technical and legal problems, often more down to the way they are deployed than the actual machines themselves. - More
by Jonny Hankins, 4 March 2010 Permalink
See also: Roboethics blog
Practicing Responsibility
In the imminence of the deadline for submitting abstracts (15th March) I bring to our readers' attention the following call for papers, co-organised by the Bassetti Foundation, for a session at the next EASST conference (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology), which will take place in Trento, September 2-4th 2010, in collaboration with STS Italia. - More
by Redazione FGB, 1 March 2010 Permalink
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Categories Responsibility
That was the year that was
2009 was a busy year for the foundation. The following review aims at giving the reader an overview of the foundation's work by looking at its involvement in conferences, seminars, publications, education and the promotion of debate throughout the year. - More
by Redazione FGB, 17 January 2010 Permalink
Read also: FGB Newsletter
Leggi in italianoA 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. It is a resume' of conversations conducted between Mr Ubois and 12 internationally renowned innovators and thinkers - More
by Redazione FGB, 8 January 2010 Permalink
See also: Jeff Ubois' blog and other FGB publications
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Categories Innovation and politics, Interviews, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
New Publication from FGB: Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility
The Fondazione Giannino Bassetti's new publication, Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility highlights approaches to responsibility in innovation taken by leading practitioners in disruptive fields. - More
by Redazione FGB, 2 January 2010 Permalink
See also: FGB's publications
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 unforeseeable effects of their choices and decisions. - More
by Redazione FGB, 11 December 2009 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Categories Innovation and Responsibility
Proceedings of The Network Society, Business, Innovation and Responsibility' conference
In this the first of two postings reporting the proceedings of the conference entitled 'The Network Society, Business, Innovation and Responsibility', Jonny Hankins provides a summary of the speakers' presentations. - More
by Redazione FGB, 25 November 2009 Permalink
Read also: Innovazione e creatività
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. - More
by Redazione FGB, 19 November 2009 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Categories Media
Read also: more depth and Request for Comments on our site.
Leggi in ItalianoTowards Transparency -- or Lysenkoism?
Transparency and discussions of values would seem to be a cornerstone of responsibility in innovation. But to be effective, questions and processes of disclosure intended to foster transparency need to focus on those areas where conflicts of interest are meaningful. - More
by Redazione FGB, 4 November 2009 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Categories Innovation, Policy
Drugs for People, not for Profit.
In this article Jonny Hankins focuses his attention upon a report entitled 'A Bitter Pill To Swallow, Drugs for people, not just for profit'. Published by the think-tank Compass the report offers a critique into the current state of the pharmaceutics industry and the societal responsibility that it bears. - More
by Redazione FGB, 10 September 2009 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Read also: Daniel Callahan in FGB
Bio-orthopaedics between innovation and health policies
An interview with Alberto Gobbi. Maria Cristina Paganoni proposes an interview about the current cutting-edge research on regeneration therapies in cartilage damage, the relevant opportunities for a strategic rethinking on health policy in this area, and its impact on the social and collective thinking about issues of health and self care. - More
by Redazione FGB, 29 July 2009 Permalink
See also: Daniel Callahan in FGB
Categories Innovation and politics
See also: L'etica del nuovo
Categories Media, biotechnology
Humanizing Tomorrow's Biomedicine
The Bassetti Foundation is pleased to announce its association with and participation at the 13th International Intensive Course in Bioethics entitled Humanizing Tomorrow's Biomedicine, that takes place between the 13th to the 24th of July 2009 in Udine, Italy. - More
by Redazione FGB, 4 July 2009 Permalink
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The mechanization of Empathy in Health Care - 2. Takanori Shibata
Second part of the report on "technology and empathy in the context of health care" held in January. During the conference, Dr. Shibata presented essential aspects of the idea of a "Robot Therapy". Dr. Shibata is Senior Researcher at Japan's Institute of Advanced Industrial Sciences and Technology AIST (Tsukuba, Japan). He is the inventor of PARO. - More
by Redazione FGB, 8 May 2009 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
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Categories Artificial Empathy, Report
Nature, New Yorker on Cognitive Enhancement
Back in December, Nature published a remarkable editorial, Towards Responsible Use of Cognitive-enhancing Drugs by the Healthy, that concludes "Safe and effective cognitive enhancers will benefit both the individual and society...But it would also be foolish to ignore problems that such use of drugs could create or exacerbate." - More
by Redazione FGB, 5 May 2009 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
See also: Deepening The Public Conversation Around Bioethics and the Call for Comments The implications of innovation in the health field:
false hopes for medicine?
Categories Sociology, biotechnology
Scott Berkun on Responsibility and Resistance
Scott Berkun is the author of The Myths of Innovation, which examines common pre- and mis-conceptions about innovation, and Making Things Happen, a book about project management. In this wide ranging discussion, Berkun offers some useful definitions of innovation, discusses resistance to innovation, and outlines some ideas on corporate responsibility (and irresponsibility). - More
by Redazione FGB, 14 April 2009 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
See also: New science and new politics by Piero Bassetti
Read also: Ethical Leadership by Ervin Laszlo and By Any Other Name in Jeff Ubois' blog.
Categories Sustainability
Springer Handbook of Robotics
On February 5, the "Springer Handbook of Robotics" by Bruno Siciliano and Oussama Khatib has won two awards "PROS Awards 2008". Prose Awards are the American equivalent of the Oscar awards in the scientific and professional field. Inside, a chapter of Veruggio and Operto entitled "Roboethics: Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics" which discusses the basic principles of roboethics, new ethics applied to robotics and robot lemmas. - More
by Redazione FGB, 19 March 2009 Permalink
Read also: Dr. Ronald Arkin on Roboethics and Responsibility by Jeff Ubois
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Categories Publications
The mechanization of Empathy in Health Care - 1. Maja J. Matarić
On January 24, 2009 was held at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto an international workshop on "technology and empathy in the context of health care". Given the thematic orientation of this blog, the followsing report will concentrate on the second half of the workshop (centered on the relational implications of the therapeutic use of robots) that was organized around the interventions of two internationally recognised pioneers in the therapeutic use of robots. - More
by Redazione FGB, 3 March 2009 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
See also: Artificial Empathy: a research diary.
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Categories Artificial Empathy, Report
Satellite traffic problems
On February 10th there was a traffic accident of a new type. Two satellites were involved, one an American "Iridium" communications satellite and the other an abandoned Russian "Cosmos" military satellite. The American satellite was still in use but the Russian machine had been out of service since 1995 and was no longer actively controlled. It had been launched on 16th June 1993 and was in service for 2 years. The crash took place 491miles above Siberia in one of the most popular orbits for these types of vehicle (military, weather and communications). - More
by Redazione FGB, 24 February 2009 Permalink
Regulating nanotechnology through private actors?
by Brice Laurent. While some public officials claim that the potential risks of nanotechnology will be managed as early as possible, numerous questions are raised about the relevance of existing regulation for the many different nano-products. - More
by Redazione FGB, 23 February 2009 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Read also: Asking the relevant questions about public participation by Brice Laurent
Categories Nanotechnology, Responsibility and Science
Judith Estrin: Closing the Innovation Gap
In this wide ranging interview, Estrin explains how business and political leaders can embrace policies that embody the values associated with innovation - openness, risk, questioning, persistence, and trust. And she warns that recent changes in business and government practice are putting innovation in the U.S. at risk. - More
by Redazione FGB, 30 January 2009 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
See also: Innovation and Politics by Piero Bassetti
Asking the relevant questions about public participation
by Brice Laurent. Participatory experiments in nanotechnology have been numerous, but their outcomes are uncertain. Some have criticized the little interest these mechanisms have received in policy circles. The Grenoble case is telling for that matter. - More
by Redazione FGB, 28 January 2009 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
See also: the interview with Christine Peterson by Jeff Ubois, Governance and participation in nanotechnology by Jonny Hankins, Nanotechnology in this site (2005)
On the Media and Innovation: an Interview with Scott Kirsner
As an observer of innovation across the domains life sciences, clean technology, and media, Kirsner has explored the attraction to and fear of innovation present in many large institutions, and uncovered numerous examples of innovation that reveal aspects of innovators' responsibilities, as well as the deep ambivalence many companies have about innovation. - More
by Redazione FGB, 2 December 2008 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Categories Interview
Responsible Innovation and Participatory Democracy. Daniel P. Mulhollan in FGB
Daniel Mulhollan, Director of the Congressional Research Service at the Library of the US Congress, will be the guest of the Giannino Bassetti Foundation in Milan on 3rd December 2008, within the scientific framework of the research project I forum consultivi come strumento di fiducia, promoted by IRER - the Regional Research Institute of Lombardy. - More
by Redazione FGB, 28 November 2008 Permalink
Categories Democracy and Participation
Is biotechnological research in Italy a chimera? (Second part)
The second part of the interview conducted by Cristina Grasseni with Giovanna Lazzari e Cesare Galli at the Laboratory of Reproduction Technology in Cremona (Italy) in which many points of fundamental importance for a serious contemporary debate on responsibility and innovation emerge. - (post in Italian) - More
by Redazione FGB, 26 November 2008 Permalink
See also: Genetic Testing and its Implications: an interview with Dr. Arthur Caplan by Jeff Ubois; Opinione pubblica, biotecnologie e "società del rischio" a research by Poster-FGB (2002) and the videoclip Innovation is the ability to achieve the improbable.
Categories genetics
European Food Safety Authority is launching a public consultation
EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) is launching a public consultation on its draft scientific opinion on the Potential Risks Arising from Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies on Food and Feed safety and the Environment. The work follows a request from the European Commission (EC) to EFSA for advice on this issue in 2007. EFSA's opinion will help inform consideration of any future EU measures in relation to nanotechnologies in the food and feed area. - More
by Redazione FGB, 25 November 2008 Permalink
Read also: Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food in Cristina Grasseni's blog.
Categories Food and Feed, Nanotechnology
What's the social and ethical responsibility of basic science?
by Maximilian Fochler. At the Euroscience Open Forum 2008 in Barcelona a group of leading scholars from the sciences, as well as from the interdisciplinary field of Social Studies of Science (STS), gathered to debate the social and ethical responsibility of basic research - a question of vital importance for wider debates on how contemporary societies may best govern processes of innovation and their ethical and social implications. - More
by Redazione FGB, 21 October 2008 Permalink
See also: Sheila Jasanoff in FGB and Science and Governance: The report for the European Commission presented at the Bassetti Foundation with Brian Wynne
Categories Forum
Is biotechnological research in Italy a chimera? An interview with Giovanna Lazzari and Cesare Galli
Research originality, an experimental approach and leadership within the scientific community has brought the Laboratory of Reproduction Technology (Cremona, Italy) to the cutting edge of scientific innovation regarding the cloning of breeding animals (above all with cows, horses and pigs). Giovana Lazzari and Cesare Galli were asked about the nature of the Laboratory of Reproduction Technology, their current activities and the new challenges they will have to face. - (post in Italian) - More
by Redazione FGB, 8 October 2008 Permalink
See also: Opinione pubblica, biotecnologie e "società del rischio" a research by Poster-FGB, the Call for Comments on biotechnology and the 'Topics' published on 2000/2002: Biotecnologie e Ingegneria genetica (2001-2002) and Biotecnologie e Ingegneria genetica (2000-2002)
Categories genetics
About the Anthropology of globalization (2)
The essay by Monica Lindh de Montoya "Il mercato come specchio o modello. Come i commercianti riconfigurano le transazioni economiche e sociali in un'economia rurale" (The market as a mirror and model. How merchants re-frame economic and social transactions in a rural economy), first published in 1999, investigates cultural change in an agricultural community in Bailadores, Venezuela, fueled by vegetable and particularly garlic production for the national market. A reading by Guido Carlotto and comment by Valentina Porcellana. - (post in Italian) - More
by Redazione FGB, 26 September 2008 Permalink
Categories anthropology
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Categories Artificial Empathy
Responsibility and uncertainty: new perspectives upon responsible action
Maria Antonietta Foddai, professor of the philosophy of law in the faculty of law at the University of Sassari offers a rich reflection on the modern concept of responsibility, offering a new approach to the problem: the construction of responsibility must derive from within a social common project. The new subject of responsibility therefore becomes an "us" that shares responsible action. Nicole Lozzi met her on behalf of the Bassetti Foundation. - More
by Redazione FGB, 6 September 2008 Permalink
See also: "New rites for democracy?" and "'Audit Cultures', a cura di Marilyn Strathern" in Grasseni's blog.
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About the Anthropology of globalization
Some brief thoughts about the essay "Per l'antropologia economica: culture e pratiche nella divisione sociale del lavoro" (For an economic anthropology: culture and practice in the social division of work), that opens the volume "Antropologia della globalizzazione" (The Anthropology of Globalization) proposed by Giulio Sapelli - (post in Italian) - More
by Redazione FGB, 5 September 2008 Permalink
See also: Storicizzare la scienza, Una nuova educazione per il futuro della biosfera and the review of Panzarani's book "L'innovazione a colori".
Categories anthropology
Report I - Communication Robots ATR
On January 26 we visited ATR (Advanced Telecomunication Research Institute International) a Japanese company of which some branches are specialised in the production of robots and whose headquarters are located close to Kyoto. Our interlocutor was Dr. Takayuki Kanda who gave us a a warm reception and detailed description of the research dedicated to in robots destined to social use. - More
by Redazione FGB, 4 August 2008 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
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Artificial Empathy: a research diary.
Today's sciences of the artificial extend all the way to the domain of emotions. The recent re-inclusion of the emotional dimension within cognition, in the scientific trend that considers knowing as a form of doing - constructing, creating, fabricating - transforms our understanding of cognitive processes. In our we present the (relatively still brute) result of our encounters with researchers in the field of artificial agents and empathy, in order to receive comments and criticisms and initiate discussions from which we will profit, and where visitors of the Foundation's website can gain information and participate in shared reflection. - More
by Redazione FGB, 3 August 2008 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
See also:
Robotics. A new science
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Categories Artificial Empathy
Without risk there is no progress
In this his second posting on nanotechnology, Jonny Hankins looks at the work of the International Risk Governence Council, their white paper on risk governance and their policy brief on nanotechnology risk governance. - More
by Redazione FGB, 29 July 2008 Permalink
See also: Governance and participation in nanotechnology and the interview with Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute on Nanotechnology (by Jeff Ubois)
Categories Nanotechnology
Deepening The Public Conversation Around Bioethics (part 2)
In this discussion, Murray sheds light on different thinking processes useful in assessing ethical questions and innovation; particular developments in medicine and biotechnology related to sports and human enhancement; and on the Hastings Center's operations and influence. - More
by Redazione FGB, 7 July 2008 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Deepening The Public Conversation Around Bioethics (part 1)
In this discussion, Murray sheds light on different thinking processes useful in assessing ethical questions and innovation; particular developments in medicine and biotechnology related to sports and human enhancement; and on the Hastings Center's operations and influence. - More
by Redazione FGB, 3 July 2008 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Robotics. A new science
On 20th February an important conference on robotics took place in Rome entitled "Robotics: A New Science". The event was conceived as a seminar whose objective was that of discussing the contemporary development of robotics within the framework of recent scientific and technological developments in the informatics, telecommunication, software and electronics sectors. In this article Fiorella Operto explains the principal points of discussion. - More
by Fiorella Operto, 15 May 2008 Permalink
See also: Robot: il corpo e l'anima, a dialogue with Fiorella Operto by Borrello and Correale Santacroce, and Dal Golem all'intelligenza artificiale
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Categories Roboethics
By Any Other Name
For people new to the work of the Bassetti Foundation, the concept of "responsibility in innovation" can be somewhat elusive. But like most other general concepts, responsibility in innovation is reflected in a wide variety of disciplines, though often by other names. For example... - More
by Jeff Ubois, 8 May 2008 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
The Politics of Science and the re-definition of democracy (part 2)
The fourth Lecture of the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti will feature prof. Sheila Jasanoff, professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, one of the authors of the report to the EU "Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously". Mariachiara Tallacchini offers here an introduction to Jasanoff's STS approach. (Part 2) - More
by Mariachiara Tallacchini, 28 April 2008 Permalink
See also: Science and Governance: The report for the European Commission presented at the Bassetti Foundation
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Categories Democracy and Participation, Innovation and politics, Lecture, Responsibility and Science
The Politics of Science and the re-definition of democracy (part 1)
The fourth Lecture of the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti will feature prof. Sheila Jasanoff, professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, one of the authors of the report to the EU "Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously". Mariachiara Tallacchini offers here an introduction to Jasanoff's STS approach. - More
by Mariachiara Tallacchini, 21 April 2008 Permalink
See also: Science and Governance: The report for the European Commission presented at the Bassetti Foundation
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Governance and participation in nanotechnology
This is the first of a number of postings that Jonny Hankins will devote to nanotechnologies, their novelty in technoscientific society and their impact on our thinking of responsible innovation. Here, a first look at informative websites and newsletters on nanotechnologies, societal impact and decision making. - More
by Redazione FGB, 7 April 2008 Permalink
See also: interviews with Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute on Nanotechnology and with Lawrence Gasman, cofounder of NanoMarkets (by Jeff Ubois)
Categories Nanotechnology, Responsibility and Science
Design-Push Innovation: Changing Accepted Meanings (part 2)
An interview with Roberto Verganti (part 2). In this interview, we discuss different types of design innovation, ranging from incremental approaches (such as user-centered design) to more radical, "design-push" innovations that change the meaning associated with products and services. But how can responsibility can be assessed in the context of different types of design innovation? What is the new roles for media, political, and corporate leaders? Can product liability drive greater responsibility in innovation? - More
by Redazione FGB, 21 March 2008 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Design-Push Innovation: Changing Accepted Meanings (part 1)
An interview with Roberto Verganti. In this interview, we discuss different types of design innovation, ranging from incremental approaches (such as user-centered design) to more radical, "design-push" innovations that change the meaning associated with products and services. But how can responsibility can be assessed in the context of different types of design innovation? What is the new roles for media, political, and corporate leaders? Can product liability drive greater responsibility in innovation? - More
by Redazione FGB, 19 March 2008 Permalink
Categories Design
Building a bridge between science and society
By Roberta Gabbatore. On Thursday 14th February 2008 in the splendid setting of the ex monastery of Saint Augustine (now part of the University) in Bergamo's upper town the conference "Building a bridge between science and society. Looking for the foundations of the communication of science" took place. - More
by Redazione FGB, 27 February 2008 Permalink
See also: Science and Governance: the EU report presented at FGB. Interview with Mariachiara Tallacchini and the page in Events dei materiali su convegno e seminario
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Categories Conference, Democracy and Participation
New Rites For Democracy?
On February 15th 2008, at the premises of the Bassetti Foundation in Milan, the sociologist of science Brian Wynne opened the seminar chaired by Piero Bassetti and Mariachiara Tallacchini about the report for the European Commission, Taking European Society Seriously (2007), now translated in Italian under the auspices of the Bassetti Foundation (Scienza e Governance. La società europea della conoscenza presa sul serio. Rubbettino, 2008). What follows is my own reconstruction of the main arguments and issues raised at the seminar. - More
by Redazione FGB, 27 February 2008 Permalink
Categories Responsibility
A seminar on governance and science at the Bassetti Foundation in Milan
On Friday 15th February 2008, at the premises of the Bassetti Foundation in Milan, Piero Bassetti opened the seminar on Science and Governance introducing Brian Wynne, chairman of the work group that produced the report "Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously" for the European Commission, and Mariachiara Tallacchini, a member of the group and translator of the report into Italian. - More
by Redazione FGB, 21 February 2008 Permalink
See also: dialogo on line con Fiorella Operto (in Italian)
Science and Governance: the provocation of responsibility.
Conversation with Mariachiara Tallacchini. "Within the cultural horizons of the European Commission the STS point of view was missing; no report had ever used the science and technology studies perspective. Nicole Dewandre who was in charge of Science and Governance within the Directorate General for Research, was given the mandate to commission an expert group coordinated by Brian Wynne, which could be the European and international expression of this approach. [...] Our thesis is that the public fear of science is not produced by a deficit of knowledge, but by the doubts that the citizens feel in relation to the institutions themselves..." - More
by Redazione FGB, 9 February 2008 Permalink
See also: article by Valentina Porcellana
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Science and Governance: the EU report on Science and Governance presented at FGB
The driving force of the science on the economic and social development compelled politics and laws to set rules for the technoscience and its innumerable deployments. The "Science and Governance Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously" Report, committed by the European Commission, meet the exigence of reflecting in a responsible way about the links between science and society. The Italian transalation will be presented at the Giannino Bassetti Foundation headquarters by the science sociologist Brian Wynne and by the jurist Mariachiara Tallacchini. - More
by Redazione FGB, 1 February 2008 Permalink
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Dr. Ronald Arkin on Roboethics and Responsibility (part 3)
(...continues from the previous entry) Ubois: Do you see -- I mean, another direction I could see this going is in the ways the lines between warfare and law enforcement... - More
by Redazione FGB, 18 January 2008 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Categories Interview, Roboethics
Dr. Ronald Arkin on Roboethics and Responsibility (part 2)
(...continues from the previous entry) Ubois: It's an interesting question of when should you essentially exit a field or exit certain social or power structures, because you can't abide by... - More
by Redazione FGB, 15 January 2008 Permalink
Categories Interview, Roboethics
Categories Interview, Roboethics
Towards a new model of governance to manage new technologies in organizations - Part 5. Conclusion
We argued that the risks and challenges of digitally interoperable enterprise architectures that define the environment of contemporary organisations cannot be understood solely by looking at the traditional distinction between... - More
by Redazione FGB, 29 December 2007 Permalink
Towards a new model of governance to manage new technologies in organizations - Part 4. Putting it all together
The issues briefly sketched above lead us to discuss the risk and challenges for the creation digitally interoperable enterprise architecture between the public and the private sectors along three key... - More
by Redazione FGB, 30 November 2007 Permalink
Categories anthropology
Of flies and forests: putting laboratory work in its social context (part 1)
In this interview to Sophie Houdart taken at the Cerisy Cultural Centre, we debated on the many links between the ethnography of science and the interrogation on responsible innovation. The work of Sophie Houdart brings to the fore many important categories, that of fact and that of event, the idea of a moral responsibility of the scientist for the kind of "objects" he/she creates in the laboratory, and the scientist's awareness of the relevance of their work for society at large. - More
by Redazione FGB, 23 November 2007 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Categories anthropology
Towards a new model of governance to manage new technologies in organizations - Part 3. Federated, concentric and platform organisations
Building the internal capabilities, technical architecture, service delivery, planning and contract monitoring to achieve this ambition will require a governance framework encompassing a wide spectrum of arrangements, including the measurement... - More
by Redazione FGB, 29 October 2007 Permalink
Participatory design: an Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale (part 3)
The third part of the Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale: he offers insights into IRBs, participatory design, managing design tradeoffs, ethics and empowerment. - More
by Redazione FGB, 26 October 2007 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
See also: Participatory design (part 1)
Categories Interview, Software development
See also: Participatory design (part 1)
Participatory design: an Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale (part 1)
Dr. Michael Twidale is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In this discussion, he offers insights into IRBs, participatory design, managing design tradeoffs, ethics and empowerment. - More
by Redazione FGB, 12 October 2007 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Towards a new model of governance to manage new technologies in organizations - Part 2: New technologies in organisations: issues and perspectives
Global ICT Programmes require the intersection of information infrastructures well beyond the conventional boundaries of institutions and organisations, which are typically demarcated by the legal (or contractual) boundary of their purposes and activities. - More
by Redazione FGB, 30 September 2007 Permalink
New version of our website
Dear readers or visitors, at the end of August we launched a new version of our website featuring several changes to our graphics and site layout. You will surely notice that the menu items have changed... - More
by Redazione FGB, 21 September 2007 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Categories Innovation and Responsibility
Towards a new model of governance to manage new technologies in organizations - Part 1: Introduction
According to a recent report of the META Group Inc. (2006) , requirements for digital interoperability between the public and private sectors will drive enterprise architecture over the next years, impacting 50% of the Fortune 500 companies and extending into the global domain. - More
by Redazione FGB, 31 July 2007 Permalink
Political responsibility in innovation: a challenge for the new Statute of the Region of Lombardy
Political responsibility in innovation is a challenge for the new Statute of the Region of Lombardy. The debate on this issue that the Giannino Bassetti Foundation has been promoting for some time now has led to important political developments: the issue of deliberative democracy lies at the heart of political interest today... - More
by Redazione FGB, 31 July 2007 Permalink
See also: Innovazione tecnico scientifica e democrazia e Partecipazione Pubblica e Governance dell'Innovazione
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Categories Democracy and Participation, Innovation and politics
See also: Microspheres by Andrea Pitasi
Categories Sociology, Software development
The CfC 'Reinventing learning and research?' is over.
As previously announced, we close this Call for Comments hoping that it helped at least to raise some of the many issues around the idea of a "reinvention" of learning and research. ------------------------------------ Chiudiamo come annunciato questo Call for Comments auspicando che abbia per lo meno cominciato a sollevare i molti quesiti relativi alla "reinvenzione dell'apprendimento e della ricerca". - More
by Redazione FGB, 10 July 2007 Permalink
See also: The manifesto by Carayannis and Formica
See also: Reinventing learning and research? (part 1)
Categories Reinventing learning and research
How to map complex issues?
In this interview, taken at the Cerisy colloquium organised by Bruno Latour and Philippe Descola on "L'anthropologie historique de la raison scientifique", (July 12th- 19th 2006), Cristina Grasseni gathered Bruno Latour's view s on responsible innovation and its relevance to the research agenda of historians, anthropologists, philosophers and sociologists of science. - More
by Redazione FGB, 11 June 2007 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
See also: Latour in the Call fro Comment Which responsibility?
Transparency, Privacy, and Responsibility: An Interview with Jeff Jonas
More directly and obviously than many forms of innovation, software embodies the values of those who create it. This is particularly true of software used to monitor and direct human activity: in the extreme, it can be a tool that saves lives, or one that enables political repression. Software development therefore provides many examples of responsibility in innovation. As a leading innovator in the field of data analysis, Jeff Jonas has thought deeply about the social and political implications related to technological advances in surveillance, the loss of privacy, and the use of computerized monitoring systems by governments and corporations. - More
by Redazione FGB, 5 June 2007 Permalink
Categories Interview, Software development
Innovation and Politics
We publish "Innovation and politics", the second lesson of Piero Bassetti for the Cross-sectional Course of Epistemology of the scientific and technical search of the Politecnico of Milan. A lesson gave in the February of 2006, that will published from Mondadori. This publication follows the previous lesson "La responsabilità nell'innovazione", that you can find in this site. - More
by Piero Bassetti, 31 May 2007 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
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See also: La responsabilità nell'innovazione
Categories Publication
Reinventing learning and research?
Within the framework of the co-operation between Profs. Elias Carayannis and Piero Formica (respectively from the School of Business at George Washington University, and the International Entrepreneurship Academy at Jönköping University) the following manifesto ensued, published as Guest Editorial in Industry and Higher Education (April 2007). We hereby re-launch it to submit it for comment and feedback from our readers. --------------------------- Nell'ambito della cooperazione tra due istituti di ricerca sulla imprenditorialità (la George Washington University, USA e la Jonkoping University, Svezia) è nato un manifesto a firma di Elias Carayannis e Piero Formica (pubblicato in Industry and Higher Education, Guest Editorial, Aprile 2007), che rilanciamo per sottoporlo ai commenti dei nostri lettori. - More
by Redazione FGB, 21 May 2007 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Categories Reinventing learning and research
See also: La responsabilità nell'innovazione
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2007 FGB Grants
Once again this year FGB is making 5 grants available to doctoral candidates and post-docs interested in attending the conference entitled Exercices de métaphysique empirique (autour des travaux de Bruno Latour). The grants are intended to cover the cost of staying at Cerisy-la-Salle for the duration of the conference (June 23 to 30, 2007). - More
by Redazione FGB, 13 April 2007 Permalink
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Categories Grants
Responsibility in Innovation: A Survey of Coming Attractions in Nanotechnology
A Conversation with Lawrence Gasman Lawrence Gasman is the cofounder of NanoMarkets, LLC and author of the recent book, Nanotechnology Applications and Markets, which examines the market for nanotechnology in the healthcare, energy, and information technology sectors, and provides a generalized approach to forecasting the impact of nanotechnology on particular companies and industries. In this interview, Gasman emphasizes several likely near term discontinuities based on nanotechnology. And he offers some insight into possible social effects, and the limits of regulation. And yet without an ability to forecast developments, what kind of responsibility is possible? - More
by Redazione FGB, 22 March 2007 Permalink
See also: Nanotechnology
Categories Interview, Nanotechnology
Is responsible innovation participatory, and if so, how?
Is responsible innovation participatory, and if so, how? Interviewed on his decade-long work on the history of science and its relevance to issues such as secrecy, scientist's responsibility, public understanding... - More
by Redazione FGB, 10 March 2007 Permalink
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Is responsible innovation participatory, and if so, how?
Is responsible innovation participatory, and if so, how? Interviewed on his decade-long work on the history of science and its relevance to issues such as secrecy, scientist's responsibility, public understanding and public participation, Prof. Peter Galison of Harvard University offers an intriguing insight in the topic of responsible innovation. According to him, naive notions of compromise and participation do not explain "how you can put people in a position where they can make decisions, informed decisions about what's going on". - More
by Redazione FGB, 10 March 2007 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Categories Responsibility
The Bassetti Foundation at the Centre Culturel International of Cerisy-La -Salle
The Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle is an international conference and research centre, animated by a cultural association which dates back to 1952, the Association des Amis de Pontigny-Cerisy la... - More
by Redazione FGB, 7 March 2007 Permalink
See also: Bruno Latour in FGB
Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute
If you really want to know how create a sense of responsibility, look at the software development community. Talk about political activism...They see their work as political. They see it as ethics-based. - More
by Redazione FGB, 21 February 2007 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Categories Interview
Towards a New Model of Management for the Governance of Innovation. Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
Over the past few years the blog 'Innovation, Risk and Governance' has explored a variety of topics, but it is possible to identify two core (although not always necessarily related)... - More
by Redazione FGB, 15 February 2007 Permalink
Experiments Without Borders? Ethical and Participatory Approaches to New Technologies
Sheila Jasanoff delivered the BIOS Annual Lecture chaired by Nikolas Rose at the London School of Economics. The title parallels some of the issues that have been recently discussed by the Giannino Bassetti Foundation's web-site about 'Science, Politics & Responsibility'. - More
by Redazione FGB, 26 November 2006 Permalink
Our Web Site is Changing Layout and Structure
The Giannino Bassetti Foundation is working through various channels, to promote the subject of Responsible Innovation. The evolution of Foundation's work is reflected in an evolution of its graphic image and editorial structure. - More
by Redazione FGB, 26 November 2006 Permalink
Categories This web site
Genetic Testing and its Implications: an interview with Dr. Arthur Caplan
In this discussion, Dr. Arthur Caplan discusses the implications of genetic screening, pre-natal testing, pre-natal gender selection, reproductive freedom, political education, and neurological enhancement, all within the context of responsibility in innovation, and with a nod to how effects may differ in different cultures around the world. - More
by Redazione FGB, 25 November 2006 Permalink
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.... - More
by Redazione FGB, 17 November 2006 Permalink
Categories Interview, biotechnology
Categories Blogs, Interviews
See also: Argomenti (previous series)
Categories This web site
Second thoughts on responsibility
"From Causality to Responsibility: Steps towards the Unknown" by Mariachiara Tallacchini. Contemporary scientific knowledge is characterized increasingly by uncertainty (O'Riordan and Cameron, 1994). This is due not only because both the risks and the unpredictability linked to it are increasing, but... - More
by Redazione FGB, 24 June 2006 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
'Which responsibility?' Chiusura del call
Chiudendo questo call for comments sullo statuto corrente della responsabilità dell'innovazione, ringrazio tutti coloro che hanno partecipato e si sono interrogati sulle questioni poste. Gli interventi - come era naturale... - More
by Redazione FGB, 2 April 2006 Permalink
Which responsibility? -part 2- (...continues from the previous entry)
First of all thanks to all those who have so far contributed to this call for comments, which I plan to close on April 1st. I briefly recapitulate the line... - More
by Redazione FGB, 19 March 2006 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Science, Politics and Responsibility: An Agenda for the Governance of Innovation and Technology
About the governance of innovation and technology, we will try to explore the tensions surrounding this debate and suggest some definitions to help the reader go through the maze of conflicting interpretations. - More
by Redazione FGB, 7 March 2006 Permalink
See also: Which Responsibility?
Categories Politics, Responsibility
An extract from the Oxford English Dictionary about the definition of the term 'policy'
III. 8. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 5) policy decision, document, -maker, -making, statement; policy-making adj.; policy science (see quot. 1951); hence policy scientist. 1960 I. JEFFERIES Dignity & Purity... - More
by Redazione FGB, 6 March 2006 Permalink
Categories Policy
Which responsibility? - part 1- ...This call for comments continues in the next entry...
The ambitious goal of this call is that of initiating an exploration of possible ways of reflecting on the concepts of responsibility and innovation, without losing sight of the social,... - More
by Redazione FGB, 2 February 2006 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Categories anthropology, arts
Categories anthropology, arts
'Audit Cultures', by Marilyn Strathern - Book review
In her edited collection Audit Cultures published in 2000 by Routledge, one of the leading figures of British anthropology, Marilyn Strathern, sets out to chart a new "kind of culture... - More
by Redazione FGB, 22 July 2005 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Categories Responsibility, anthropology
On the Governance of Scientific Innovation and the Avoidance of Irresponsibility (PART 2)
It is widely acknowledged that in a number of countries trust in political organisations has recently declined. Some are under attack as a result of their non-compliance with issues of... - More
by Redazione FGB, 5 July 2005 Permalink
Categories Responsibility
Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food (2)
(continuing from "Slow food, fast genes... (1)") Timescapes of authenticity Innovation or creativity: which is the best concept for explaining the kind of novelty that affects our daily consumption of... - More
by Redazione FGB, 6 June 2005 Permalink
Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food (1)
This is a first attempt at focussing on issues and questions of timescapes, responsibility and creativity with regard to the issue of the production and consumption of food in contemporary Italy. - More
by Redazione FGB, 5 June 2005 Permalink
Categories anthropology, precautionary principle
Categories anthropology
On the Governance of Scientific Innovation and the Avoidance of Irresponsibility (PART 1)
At the centre of the debate within the EU as well as across the Atlantic is a rising problematisation of the definition of roles and responsibilities over the way in... - More
by Redazione FGB, 1 June 2005 Permalink
Categories Responsibility
Categories Governance
Categories Ethics
Governing Innovation in the Information Society: the need to account for the intangible dimension [update 15 Mar 05]
[update 15 Mar 05] See the links at the bottom of this post Following the recent entry on 'The Evolution of the Blog Innovation, Risk and Governance' the aim of... - More
by Redazione FGB, 5 March 2005 Permalink
Categories Governance
Reflecting on the Risk and Sustainability of Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare
The often mentioned need to innovate and reform health systems is the consequence of three main aspects affecting modern societies. An aging population, changes in technology and the reduction of... - More
by Redazione FGB, 16 February 2005 Permalink
Categories Governance
A Tribute to Claudio Ciborra, the Scientist and the Man
Claudio Ciborra, Professor and Convenor of Information Systems at LSE, died in Milan, his hometown, on Sunday 13th February 2005, aged 53; losing his battle against cancer. In this unfortunate... - More
by Redazione FGB, 16 February 2005 Permalink
Innovation, Knowledge and Intellectual Property: the Risks of WTO Regulations
Intellectual property is the cornerstone of the modern knowledge economy. Digital information resources, from software to ideas and other creative works, databases, etc... are notoriously characterised by massive fixed costs... - More
by Redazione FGB, 15 January 2005 Permalink
Categories Risk
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... - More
by Redazione FGB, 12 November 2004 Permalink
Categories Nanotechnology
An Alternative E-Governance Plan For The Nation (by Satish Jha, India [*])
Most developing countries cannot afford to develop applications that will help them make use of the potential of ICTs. Once again the divide between the developed and teh developing economies is going to widen further. But this time around its easier to put the developing countries on a time-collapsingcourse where they can quickly move up the experience curve. That requires thinking differently. As of now these developing countries are experimenting with Toy Applications that contribute little to productivity. They need a programme to help them move up the learning curve. - More
by Redazione FGB, 10 September 2004 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Categories Governance
Conceptualising Governance: A theoretical and practical agenda
The context we refer to for the term governance is necessarily global. Governance is generally understood as a broad process affecting the collective decision-making roles and procedures, management and authority... - More
by Redazione FGB, 9 September 2004 Permalink - Read and submit a comment
Categories Governance
Categories Risk
Categories Practice
On the Governance of International Business Standards, a letter by Sunil Bedi
I have been concerned about governance of international business standards. Here are my thoughts: The article raised issues that will become increasingly significant in defining international commerce and related exchanges.... - More
by Redazione FGB, 13 April 2004 Permalink
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... - More
by Redazione FGB, 7 April 2004 Permalink
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... - More
by Redazione FGB, 6 April 2004 Permalink
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... - More
by Redazione FGB, 5 April 2004 Permalink
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... - More
by Redazione FGB, 4 April 2004 Permalink
Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India's agricultural markets - Part 2: The reality of India - poison can be sweet too!
Cruising around the mustard fields of Rajastan, discovering the enchanted rice fields of Karnataka or finding your way through the jungle in the hilly north west part of Tamil Nadu... - More
by Redazione FGB, 3 April 2004 Permalink
Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India's agricultural markets - Part 1: Introduction
Two popular assumptions justify the introduction of Genetically Modified (GM) seeds in agriculture. One is demographics, and especially the expectation that according to current rates of population growth in the... - More
by Redazione FGB, 2 April 2004 Permalink
Novel ideas on development, rogue states and international law: Hilary Benn and Tony Blair explain the new doctrine
Hilary Benn, state secretary for international development after Claire Short, has recently made a remarkable address on the new development doctrine in a lecture which took place the 4th of... - More
by Redazione FGB, 11 March 2004 Permalink
Categories Policy
International disputes over disaster responsibility: whose law is better?
There is currently an eminent absence of international governance standards on business across borders. International disputes arise everyday in countries where we do not have access to information and which... - More
by Redazione FGB, 23 February 2004 Permalink
Categories Responsibility, Risk
Notes from the Road: India between farming biotechnology and computer services
This short piece is just an overview of your correspondent's long observation and research of the Indian's science and technology sector. After a month or so of pilgrimage from the... - More
by Redazione FGB, 6 January 2004 Permalink
Innovation, Risk and Development: policy choices and the WTO
In my paper on 'ICTs, Governance and Development: Risks and implications for Development Policy' I raise two important issues which constrain development policy options for Less Developed Countries (LDCs). The... - More
by Redazione FGB, 17 December 2003 Permalink
Organismi Geneticamente Modificati: possibili dinamiche di rischio ed innovazione tra locale e globale
Come stabilire l'impatto ed i rischi di una decisione presa a livello locale su processi politici, deliberativi ed economici a livello globale, e viceversa? Vorrei prendere spunto dal recente dibattito... - More
by Redazione FGB, 15 November 2003 Permalink
An Agenda for Innovation: Minister Stanca's Lecture at the London School of Economics
The 20th of October 2003 Lucio Stanca, Italian Minister for Innovation and Technologies, has presented the Italian Agenda for Innovation in the Department of Information Systems at the London School... - More
by Redazione FGB, 22 October 2003 Permalink
ICT policy and Governance
'While domestic policies are needed to harness ICT for development effectively, international policies forged in multilateral institutions will increasingly define the range of policy options available to developing countries. For... - More
by Redazione FGB, 7 October 2003 Permalink
ICTs, Governance and Development: understanding risks and challenges
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become a major component of development finance. The United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals and the good governance imitative of the Organisation for Economic... - More
by Redazione FGB, 25 September 2003 Permalink
