Bioeconomies (eBook)

Vincenzo Pavone is Tenured Researcher at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He leads a research group on the global bioeconomy studying the relationship between science, technology and neoliberal politics. He has been PI of several national and international research projects on reproductive and regenerative medicine, transgenics and surveillance-oriented security technologies.Joanna Goven is Director of Kukupa Research, which she founded after many years as an academic. In recent years she has focused on the political economy of science and on facilitating transdisciplinary research. She has published in the areas of gender politics, public engagement with science, transdisciplinarity, and the bioeconomy.

1. Introduction.- 2.the 'Entrepreneurial State' and the Leveraging of Life in the Field of Regenerative Medicine.- 3.Technologies of Governance: Science, State and Citizen in Visions of the Bioeconomy.- 4. "Having a Structuring Effect on Europe". The Innovative Medicines Initiative and the Construction of the European Health Bioeconomy.- 5. The Underworlds Project and The "Collective Microbiome": Mining Biovalue from Sewage.- 6. Bio-Identification, Value Creation and the Reproductive Bioeconomy. Insights from the Reprogenetics Sector in Spain.- 7. Making Value(s) through Social Contracts for Biomedical Population Research.- 8. Data-Sharing Politics and the Logics of Competition in Biobanking.- 9. Reproducing the Border: Kinship Legalities in the Bioeconomy.- 10. Embedded Promissory Futures: The Rise of Networked Agribusiness in Argentina's Bioeconomy.- 11. Egg Donation in the Making: Gender, Selection and (in)Visibilities in the Spanish Bioeconomy of Reproduction.- 12. Thinking (Bioeconomies) through Care: Patients' Engagement with the Bioeconomies of Parenting.- 13. Who Is My Donor? A New Bioeconomy of Blood and Its Changing Ontology.- 14. Conclusion.