Humanizing Tomorrow’s Biomedicine

La Fondazione Bassetti è lieta di annunciare la sua partecipazione e sponsorizzazione del tredicesimo International Intensive Course in Bioethics intitolato Humanizing Tomorrow’s Biomedicine, che si svolgerà tra il 13 e il 24 luglio 2009 a Udine. Dopo l’apertura, il commento e una prefazione circa le finalità e la struttura del corso, si inizia con la ... Humanizing Tomorrow’s Biomedicine

Political responsibility in innovation: a challenge for the new Statute of the Region of Lombardy

The latest issue of the Quaderni dell’IRER (Istituto Regionale di Ricerca della Lombardia – Regional Research Institute of Lombardy) contains the proceedings of the June 2006 conference on Technical and scientific innovation, democratic innovation. The opening paper, entitled Governance and technical and scientific innovation, raises a number of questions: who creates innovation in the modern ... Political responsibility in innovation: a challenge for the new Statute of the Region of Lombardy

Introduction

Over the next few months, I’ll be exploring issues related to responsibility in innovation by exploring technologies with significant but not always obvious societal implications through a series of interviews with noted inventors, practitioners, ethicists, academics, and thought leaders in the fields of genetics, nanotech, climate change, and surveillance technologies. In the interviews so far ... Introduction