COMMENTARY ON THE LIFE SCIENCES AND THE PUBLIC
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 44-47
ISSN: 0730-9384
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 44-47
ISSN: 0730-9384
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 1-1
ISSN: 1471-5457
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 44-47
ISSN: 1471-5457
In: Mirovaja ėkonomika i meždunarodnye otnošenija: MĖMO, Heft 10, S. 45-57
The paper discusses the modern risks to global security in the context of non-proliferation of biological weapons and the problems relating to elimination of such risks. Also, the author considers a number of scientific issues that have relation to Convention on prohibiting development, production and accumulation of bacteriological (biological) and tocsin weapons and on their destruction. The author studies the dangers of scientific experiments with weapons application, as well as the issues of monitoring the life sciences, including responsibility of scholars for excluding military application of the scientific achievements.
In: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
In this thought-provoking book, leading experts explore why international entrepreneurship is important to the life sciences industry. From multi-disciplinary and cross-national perspectives, they question why international entrepreneurship scholars might usefully invest interest in research focused on one specific industry context. -- The book addresses contemporary challenges of relevance to life science firms and draws on leading-edge debates in international entrepreneurship research. Topics include: the nature of the born-global firm; the development of international capabilities and competencies; the role of local and international partnerships and alliances; competitiveness, opportunity recognition and orientation; and the role of specialized complementary assets in internationalization. It concludes by proposing an agenda for future research across the underpinning fields of innovation, entrepreneurship and internationalization. -- This book will prove a stimulating read for academics, students and researchers with an interest in international business, management and entrepreneurship, as well as for practitioners in the health professions or life sciences academics who are, or may become, entrepreneurs.
Life science and biotechnology have become a top priority in research and development in many countries as the world marches into the new century. China as a developing country with a 1.3 billion population and booming economy is actively meeting the challenge of a new era in this area of research. Owing to support from the government and the scientific community, and reform to improve the infrastructure, recent years have witnessed a rapid progress in some important fields of life science and biotechnology in China, such as genomics and protein sciences, neuroscience, systematics, super-hybrid rice research, stem cell and cloning technology, gene therapy and drug/vaccine development. The planned expansion and development of innovation in related sectors and the area of bioethics are described and discussed.
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In: Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies, Band 32, Heft 5, S. 451-470
ISSN: 0016-3287
In: Chapman & Hall/CRC Finance Series; Decision Options, S. 89-170
Any classification rests upon criteria that are used to determine to which class an object belongs, such as morphological characters in the case of biological taxonomy or symptoms in the case of nosology. The workshop will put forward the somewhat neglected question how those criteria are chosen, defined, individuated and represented, with a particular focus on the life sciences. From natural history and medicine to laboratory biology, specific practices have been developed to abstract from particulars to general categories while coping with the intrinsic variability and time dependency of organic beings. The choice of characters can be determined by theoretical, pragmatic or political considerations. Operations that individuate characters can range from descriptive practices and comparative strategies to manipulative procedures. The contributions will focus on practices, representations and conceptual work that are performed in order to obtain and stabilize characters and classes as objects of science. With this focus on characters some general or case specific questions concerning classification can be re-asked, for instance, whether classification constitutes a particular way of knowing, whether it is pragmatic or essentialist, how it modifies identities and power relations and how controversies about classification are settled.Programme 9:30-10:00 Arrival 10:00-11:00 Robert Meunier (ICI Berlin): The Biological Character Concept – Historical Trajectories and Conceptual Distinctions 11:00-12:00 Benjamin Dawson (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar): Hegel and the Rationality of Observation 12:00-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:30 Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter, UK): Linnaeus and the Four Corners of the World 14:30-15:30 Mathias Grote (TU Berlin): Microbial Species as Practices – Enrichment Culture, Purification and Microbial Taxonomy Before DNA, c. 1890-1980 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:00 Lara Keuck (HU Berlin): Disease Classifications as Abstractions in Practice 17:00-18:00 Final discussion ; Characters ...
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In: Crosscurrents