Live-Archive
Development Aid and Geographical Indications
On Wednesday 11 September 2025, Martijn Huysmans’ (Utrecht University, School of Economics) presented From Champagne to Kampot pepper: EU development aid to export the idea of Geographical Indications, as part ... Development Aid and Geographical Indications
Questions about AI and Creativity
The 2025 NINA (Neither Intelligent Nor Artificial) Festival (held in Milan in May) saw the debut performance of Error01HUMAN: System Overdrive, a creation of Bassetti Foundation contributors Jonathan Hankins and ... Questions about AI and Creativity
Artificial Intelligence in the Journal of Responsible Innovation
To celebrate the release of the Bassetti Foundation White Paper on Artificial Intelligence, Jonathan Hankins reviews several recent Journal of Responsible Innovation articles that address the topic of AI from ... Artificial Intelligence in the Journal of Responsible Innovation
Collaboration with the Lombardy Regional Forum for Innovation
Between February and May (2025) the Bassetti Foundation collaborated with the Lombardy Regional Forum for Innovation to bring discussion about responsibility in innovation to secondary schools within the region of ... Collaboration with the Lombardy Regional Forum for Innovation
Focus on Reflexivity in the Journal of Responsible Innovation
One of the central aims of responsible innovation is to promote reflexivity, and in this post I would like to shine some light on recent Journal of Responsible Innovation articles ... Focus on Reflexivity in the Journal of Responsible Innovation
Lund University Research on Food Sharing
On 27 March 2025, I and Mirjam Scholtens (Municipality of Utrecht) took a group of researchers from Lund University for a guided tour of the Utrecht city garden Food For ... Lund University Research on Food Sharing
Neuralink’s brain-computer interfaces: medical innovations and ethical challenges
March of 2025 saw the release of Neuralink’s brain-computer interfaces: medical innovations and ethical challenges, authored by Andrea Lavazza, Michela Balconi, Marcello Ienca, Francesca Minerva, Federico Gustavo Pizzetti, Massimo Reichlin, Francesco Samorè, Vittorio A. Sironi, Marta Sosa Navarro and Sarah Songhorian. The ... Neuralink’s brain-computer interfaces: medical innovations and ethical challenges
Place Based Circular Society Innovations
In October of 2024, I was invited to join the Advisory Board and attend the launch of the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project Place-based circular society ... Place Based Circular Society Innovations
Follow the Food: Gouda Cheese
Follow the Food’s fourth and final seminar took place on January 22nd bringing us full circle and back to cheese, as Martijn Huysmans (Utrecht School of Economics) presented the case ... Follow the Food: Gouda Cheese
Follow the Food: Social and Ecological Implications of Premium Coffee Production in Aceh
Follow the Food Seminar 3. Geographical Indications and Coffee in Indonesia: Social and Ecological Implications of Premium Coffee Production in Aceh The third Follow the Food seminar was held on ... Follow the Food: Social and Ecological Implications of Premium Coffee Production in Aceh
Looking Back on 2024
IN MEMORY OF ANDREINA BASSETTI Through her profound civic spirit, Andreina Rocca Bassetti gained esteem and affection from all of those who had the pleasure to meet her. The work ... Looking Back on 2024
Pathways to Sustainability
On 28 November I attended the Utrecht University Pathways to Sustainability Conference 2024 in the beautiful surroundings of the Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht. The title of the conference was At ... Pathways to Sustainability








