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Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Commissioned report
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Reporting on the case study of synthetic meat
T2 - summary of findings and policy considerations
AU - Gunnarsdottir, Kristrun
AU - Strand, Roger
AU - Stephens, Neil
AU - O'Riordan, Kate
AU - Fotopoulou, Aristea
AU - Giampietro, Mario
AU - Kovacic, Zora
AU - Lemkow Zetterling, Louis
AU - Di Masso Tarditti, Marina
PY - 2015/4
Y1 - 2015/4
N2 - The in-vitro meat (IVM) research field remains small with perhaps 50 or so scientists active globally. These scientists are in the Netherlands, the US, the UK, Sweden, Israel and Norway, with some interest expressed in Denmark and by a group of bioreactor engineers in Portugal.The aim of the Epinet case study was to explore and interact with these epistemic communities / networks that have been developing, implementing, supporting and promoting IVM technologies. The study team consisted of expertise in sociotechnical evaluations, systems and uncertainty analysis, ethics and media studies. The team identified early on a small set of policy considerations around the issues of public funding and the social shaping of IVM. The question of whether or not IVM research should be publicly funded has had to be viewed in relation to how IVM technologies are represented, understood, shaped and reshaped and, accordingly, what sort of IVM activities should be funded.
AB - The in-vitro meat (IVM) research field remains small with perhaps 50 or so scientists active globally. These scientists are in the Netherlands, the US, the UK, Sweden, Israel and Norway, with some interest expressed in Denmark and by a group of bioreactor engineers in Portugal.The aim of the Epinet case study was to explore and interact with these epistemic communities / networks that have been developing, implementing, supporting and promoting IVM technologies. The study team consisted of expertise in sociotechnical evaluations, systems and uncertainty analysis, ethics and media studies. The team identified early on a small set of policy considerations around the issues of public funding and the social shaping of IVM. The question of whether or not IVM research should be publicly funded has had to be viewed in relation to how IVM technologies are represented, understood, shaped and reshaped and, accordingly, what sort of IVM activities should be funded.
KW - In-vitro meat
KW - Public funding
KW - Promotional publics
KW - Artificial foods
KW - Yuck factor
KW - Agro-food system
KW - Animal welfare
KW - Environment
KW - Governance
KW - Policy making
KW - Innovation
M3 - Commissioned report
VL - WP5 Policy Report, March/April 2015 (EPINET Deliverable D8.3, April 2015)
BT - Reporting on the case study of synthetic meat
PB - Lancaster University
ER -