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Dickenson, Donna
Centre for the Study of Global Ethics
University of Birmingham
D.L.Dickenson@bham.ac.uk
Preliminary findings of new EC Framework VI project
PropEur (Property Governance in European Ethics, Science and Law)
This paper will report on the preliminary findings of new EC Framework VI project, PropEur (Property Governance in European Ethics, Science and Law). The overall project objective is to compile and analyse new approaches in ethics and law to tangible and intangible property in the human genome, plant genomes in relation to biodiversity and sustainable development, food technologies, and the information society.
Commodification and biotechnological advances in these areas of applied science are widely thought to be racing ahead of ethical understanding and legal regulation. However, there are also a number of innovative models in the research literature for rectifying this concern, although they are not always widely known. The project aims to compile existing and proposed modes of regulating these cross-cutting instances of commodification – analysing and critiquing them with academic and user audiences, and disseminating models of best practice.
Following an initial workshop at which the relevant new regulatory models for each subject pair will be decided, in a bottom-up fashion, the partner pairs will organise two international workshops for their topic area, to critique and further develop new models for property regulation in those areas. A final large conference brings all this activity together. In addition to workshop reports, the project deliverables will also include a website, journal/book publications and guidelines for regulation of property in these rapidly developing areas. Dissemination of the results and deliverables will be enhanced by partners’ memberships of national, European and international regulatory and policy-making bodies. These and other direct links to policy-making bodies will also facilitate recruitment to the workshops of policy-makers, in addition to researchers, patient groups, and representatives of the general public.
Sociology of Science and Technology NETwork - last update: April 2006