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Synthetic biology in the view of European public funding organisations
- Source :
- Public Understanding of Science (Bristol, England)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2012.
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Abstract
- We analysed the decisions of major European public funding organisations to fund or not to fund synthetic biology (SB) and related ethical, legal and social implication (ELSI) studies. We investigated the reaction of public organisations in six countries (Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK) towards SB that may influence SB’s further development in Europe. We examined R&D and ELSI communities and their particular funding situation. Our results show that the funding situation for SB varies considerably among the analysed countries, with the UK as the only country with an established funding scheme for R&D and ELSI that successfully integrates these research communities. Elsewhere, we determined a general lack of funding (France), difficulties in funding ELSI work (Switzerland), lack of an R&D community (Austria), too small ELSI communities (France, Switzerland, Netherlands), or difficulties in linking existing communities with available funding sources (Germany), partly due to an unclear SB definition.
- Subjects :
- Special Issue Articles
Financing, Government
0206 medical engineering
02 engineering and technology
Public administration
03 medical and health sciences
science funding
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Political science
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
public funding
Public funding
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
Communication
Research
Academies and Institutes
science policy
Europe
Policy
Work (electrical)
ELSI
Science policy
Synthetic Biology
Social implication
020602 bioinformatics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13616609 and 09636625
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Public Understanding of Science (Bristol, England)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....19138aac4bd85671c8fcb5f4c2bd6d54