Stem Cell Science in India: Emerging Economies and the Politics of Globalization

Salter, Brian; Cooper, Melinda; Dickins, A; Cardo, Valentina

doi:10.2217/17460751.2.1.75

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“…Associated with the geographies of the bioeconomy, it is also pointed out how value-creation in the bioeconomy comprises both a material component associated with bio-resources, but nonetheless also an immaterial component in terms of knowledge and an ability to develop new knowledge [45]. Other parts of this literature revolve around issues such as the conditions for and strategies applied in building a bio-economy in various emerging economies [46][47][48][49][50][51].…”

Section: The Bio-technology Visionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Is the Bioeconomy? A Review of the Literature

2016

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Abstract:The notion of the bioeconomy has gained importance in both research and policy debates over the last decade, and is frequently argued to be a key part of the solution to multiple grand challenges. Despite this, there seems to be little consensus concerning what bioeconomy actually implies. Consequently, this paper seeks to enhance our understanding of what the notion of bioeconomy means by exploring the origins, uptake, and contents of the term "bioeconomy" in the academic literature. Firstly, we perform a bibliometric analysis that highlights that the bioeconomy research community is still rather fragmented and distributed across many different fields of science, even if natural and engineering sciences take up the most central role. Secondly, we carry out a literature review that identifies three visions of the bioeconomy. The bio-technology vision emphasises the importance of bio-technology research and application and commercialisation of bio-technology in different sectors of the economy. The bio-resource vision focuses on processing and upgrading of biological raw materials, as well as on the establishment of new value chains. Finally, the bio-ecology vision highlights sustainability and ecological processes that optimise the use of energy and nutrients, promote biodiversity, and avoid monocultures and soil degradation.

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Section: The Bio-technology Visionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Is the Bioeconomy? A Review of the Literature

2016

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“…Such framing, although it is specifically about NuTech, is inextricable from the hope and hype surrounding stem cell research, the shifting role of patients in defining trajectories of science, the redefinition of welfare services within neoliberalism, and the changing technocultural imaginaries of India (Franklin 2001, Cooper 2008, Cooper and Waldby 2014, Petersen 2009, Petersen and Seear 2011, Bharadwaj 2009, Salter et al 2007). The wife of a patient highlighted some of these tensions: "Because really, HESC (Human Embryonic Stem Cell) therapy is still considered experimental…there are relatively few patient accounts one can point to and say, 'See?!…”

Section: Discursive Contextures Euro/west-centrism and Stsmentioning

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Discursive Contextures of Science: Euro/West-Centrism and Science and Technology Studies

Prasad¹

2016

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Science and Technology Studies (STS) by the very act of showing the multiplicity, contingency, and context-dependence of scientific knowledge and practice, provincialized modern science. Postcolonial interventions within STS have pursued this goal even further. Nevertheless, Euro/West-centrism continues to inflect not only scientific practices and lay imaginaries, but also sociological and historical analyses of sciences. In this article, drawing on my own training within STS -first under J.P.S. Uberoi, who was concerned with structuralist analysis of modernity and science, and thereafter under Andy Pickering, when we focused on material agency and temporal emergence and extensively engaged with Actor Network Theory -I emphasize the continuing role of Euro/West-centric discourses in defining the "self" and the "other" and in impacting epistemological and ontological interventions. More broadly, building on a concept of Michael Lynch's, I call for excavation and analysis of discursive contextures of sciences. In the second section of the article, through a brief analysis of embryonic stem cell therapy in a clinic in Delhi, I show how with shifting transnational landscape of technoscience certain discursive contextures are being "deterritorialized" and left "stuttering."

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“…Moreover, it has invented a bioethical deliberative process, which is seen to be compatible with European, and North American governance norms, which gives it a well-regarded place in the global moral economy of stem cell science (Salter 2007), and helps to reassure venture capital and international biomedical firms of the social sustainability of Singaporean stem cell research. The well entrenched quality assurance ethos typical of Singapore also reassure interested parties that regulations will be uniformly implemented, in contrast to the uneven regulatory landscapes of Indian and mainland Chinese stem cell science (Salter 2007;Salter et al 2007). In 2007 and 2008 the BAC expanded its remit over stem cell regulation through two further public consultations, one about research oöcyte donation and the other about creation of cybrids 11 for SCNT research, two highly controversial areas that will require regulation if Singaporean scientists are to work at the cutting edge of stem cell science according to cosmopolitan bioethical norms.…”

Section: Stem Cell Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Singapore Biopolis: Bare Life in the City-State

Waldby¹

2009

East Asian Science

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In late 2003, the Singaporean government launched Biopolis, a life sciences technopole that brings key Singaporean biomedical research institutes together with global and local biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and governance bodies. The government has allocated generous funding to a range of biomedical research at Biopolis and adjacent academic and clinical institutes. Its stated aim is to make Singapore the Biopolis of Asia, the premier life sciences hub in a region where several much more populous states, notably China, India, and South Korea, are rapidly scaling up public investment in regenerative medicine and genomics. This paper will tease out what is at stake in the creation of Biopolis for the Singaporean state and population and what it can tell us about South East Asian governmentality and its bioeconomic and biopolitical aspirations and anxieties. In particular the paper engages with the implicit utopian vision of a regenerative bioeconomy evident in the Biopolis project. Biopolis is a site which brings together local and imported scientific expertise with the biological productivity of the multi-ethnic Singaporean population, who are understood as surrogates for the SE Asian population more generally. The ultimate aim of Biopolis, I argue, is to recalibrate the relationships between the biological and political life of the Singaporean population, and secure the economic future of the city-state, through the advanced research and development of Asia-specific medical biotechnology.

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Stem Cell Science in India: Emerging Economies and the Politics of Globalization

Cited by 35 publications

References 17 publications

What Is the Bioeconomy? A Review of the Literature

What Is the Bioeconomy? A Review of the Literature

Discursive Contextures of Science: Euro/West-Centrism and Science and Technology Studies

Singapore Biopolis: Bare Life in the City-State

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