Read also: the first part and Notes from the SIENNA Project Final Conference
European Biotechnology and Society Seminar Series 2021 - Review, Part 1
June saw the launch of the European Biotechnology and Society 2021 seminar series, a five-week long series of presentations and questions. In this post Jonathan Hankins reviews the first two episodes. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 22 June 2021 Permalink
Read also: the second part and Notes from the SIENNA Project Final Conference
Categories Report, biotechnology
Categories Open culture, biotechnology
See also: Looking Back on 20**.
Categories Democracy and Participation, Design, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Open culture, Public Partecipation, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science, Site, This web site, biotechnology
Categories Bioethics, Design, Innovation and Responsibility, Lecture, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, Video, biotechnology
Bio-based Economy from a Responsible Innovation Perspective
On Friday 9 September 2017, Bassetti Foundation Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins delivered a lecture at the Milan Bicocca University. The Lecture formed part of the program of the Towards a Bio-based Economy: Science, Innovation, Economics, Education Summer School, jointly hosted by Milan's Bicocca and Gothenburg's Chalmers Universities. - More
by Redazione FGB, 26 September 2017 Permalink
Read also: Journal of Responsible Innovation reviews
Categories Lecture, biotechnology
Leggi in Italiano
See also: all meeting and lesson videos and The Self At Your Wrist.
Categories Bioethics, Design, Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Nanotechnology, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, Roboethics, biotechnology, enhancement, genetics
Professor Jos Malda in Milan: 'fascinated by the combination of technology and living things'
On 9th May at the Bassetti Foundation in Milan, Universiteit Utrecht Professor Jos Malda will present his work and provide an overview of the state-of-the-art on 3D printing in the biomedical sector. - More
by Redazione FGB, 28 April 2017 Permalink
Leggi in italiano
SMART-map project
SMART-map is a coordination and support action financed by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Programme. Its goal is to define and implement concrete roadmaps for the responsible development of technologies and services in three key time-changing fields: precision medicine, synthetic biology and 3D printing in biomedicine. - More
by Redazione FGB, 25 January 2017 Permalink
Read also: 30 mesi di SMART-map e SMARTmap - le immagini
Categories Bioethics, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, biotechnology
Game-changing innovations and responsibility. A dialogue with David Guston.
On November, 14th, The Fondazione Bassetti had the honor to host Professor David Guston, Founding Director of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Co-Director of the Institute for the Future of Innovation in Society Arizona State University. Here presentation, videos, slides and photos. - More
by Angela Simone, Redazione FGB, 29 November 2016 Permalink
Read also: Journal of Responsible Innovation reviews and some posts on VIRI
Categories Bioethics, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Responsibility and Science, biotechnology, genetics
Read also: Journal of Responsible Innovation reviews
See also: The Fungus of Design, Osmosi #4. Incontro con Maurizio Montalti (in Italian)
Categories Design, Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, biotechnology
An Introduction to the Agri/Cultures Project
Readers may be interested to learn that Fern Wickson, program coordinator of the Society, Ecology and Ethics Department (SEED) at GenØk Centre for Biosafety in Tromsø, Norway and member of the VIRI, is currently leading the new 'Agri/Cultures Project'. - More
by Redazione FGB, 10 August 2015 Permalink
Sharing Health
Wave. The focus of the meeting of 8 June is the role that the sharing of knowledge, ideas and experience can play in improviing specialist capability, in deciding the most effective course of treatment from those currently available... - More
by Margherita Fronte, 29 May 2015 Permalink
Read also: Come la cultura hacker cambia la biologia and Il DNA diventa social
The Fungus of Design
Maurizio Montalti, a young Italian designer whose works is extremely innovative, on the border between art and biology. Single objects that are individual in their field, forged from materials gained through the manipulation of living materials... - More
by Margherita Fronte, 20 February 2015 Permalink
Leggi in Italiano
See also: lectures in Le idee e la Materia and A Matter of Design
Categories Design, biotechnology
Categories biotechnology, genetics
Read also: Innovation and Politics and An Ethics For Emerging Technologies
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 Jonathan Hankins reviews the report and its findings and recommendations. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 18 January 2013 Permalink
Categories biotechnology
The '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 Jeff Ubois, 4 January 2011 Permalink
Read also: Public Participation and the Governance of Innovation and Il potenziale sovversivo di Wikileaks (in Italian)
Categories Policy, biotechnology
See also: L'etica del nuovo
Categories Media, biotechnology
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 Jeff Ubois, 5 May 2009 Permalink
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?
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
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 Jeff Ubois, 17 November 2006 Permalink
Categories Interview, biotechnology
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
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
