Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/xy7DnM Biotechnology Policy across National Boundaries The Science-Industrial Complex By: D. West Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Print ISBN: 9781403972514, 1403972516 eText ISBN: 9780230605688, 0230605680 Copyright year: 2007 Format: PDF Available from $ 109.00 USD SKU 9780230605688 A globalization of innovation has produced the most massive spurt in biotechnology in world history. Businesses, universities, and non-governmental organizations are collaborating to produce a science-industrial complex in biotechnology. Using case studies of stem cell research, cloning, genetically modified food, in-vitro fertilization, and chimeras in a number of Eastern and Western countries around the world, I argue that much of this biotech activity is global in nature and independent of state control. This shift in the relative influence of state and non-state actors has led to the virtual deregulation of biotechnology and the liberation of innovation from geo-political constraints. These trends post a number of interesting social, political, and ethical issues for the contemporary period and suggest the need to rethink how controversial moral issues are handled by the science-industrial complex.
