7 Jul 2018

Will the Next Revolution Come From Biotech ?

Debate 3

One way of presenting the challenges of bio-economy would be to recall that this is an opportunity to reconcile growth perspectives and environmental challenges. Biotechnologies can indeed deeply change the equations related to food supply, energy dependence and natural resources availability. We should now ask ourselves whether such technologies can compete with the technologies based on fossil resources find ways to better balance them with other forms of land use, anticipate the acceptability of biotechnologies and fight current trends in the appropriation technological rents’.

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Although biotechnologies promise new productivity gains, they, nevertheless, raise major societal concerns in addition to questions around the appropriation of life science technologies. Have the advances in biotechnologies and their future impact on our societies been under-estimated? Is the European precautionary principle compatible with the biotechnological revolution? Will some industries escape the biotechnological revolution? What role should government regulation play in order to control the development of biotechnologies?

Coordination


Lionel FONTAGNÉ

Member

Cercle des économistes

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Moderator


Guillaume GOUBERT

Journalist

La Croix

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Speakers


Reiko KURODA

Professor

Tokyo University of Science

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Kathleen TREGONING

Executive Vice President, External Affairs

Sanofi

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Daniel ZAJFMAN

President

Weizmann Institute of Science

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Will the real revolution come from biotechnology_FONTAGNE

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