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Tong Y, Zhang L. Discovering the next decade's synthetic biology research trends with ChatGPT. Synth Syst Biotechnol 2023; 8:220-223. [PMID: 36923604 PMCID: PMC10009671 DOI: 10.1016/j.synbio.2023.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Yaojun Tong
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic and Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), Shanghai, 200237, China
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The Role of Stakeholders in the Context of Responsible Innovation: A Meta-Synthesis. SUSTAINABILITY 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/su11061766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This paper contributes to the sustainability debate by analyzing the inclusion dimension in the responsible research and innovation (RRI) process. RRI is claimed to be an important tool for addressing global challenges and achieving sustainable development goals. While stakeholder involvement is considered to be imperative for the RRI process, there is little empirical evidence on (1) who the stakeholders participating in the RRI process are; (2) when stakeholders participate; (3) how stakeholders’ inclusion contributes to the sustainable innovation process; and (4) who the agents are who orchestrate stakeholders’ inclusion. This paper addresses the issue of stakeholder involvement through the lens of innovation management literature by attempting to link the innovation process to the responsibility concept. We employed a meta-synthesis of empirical studies of RRI to develop a deep understanding of stakeholder inclusion. After screening 139 articles, we identified seven empirical papers highlighting RRI process, mainly from projects nested in academic contexts. The findings indicate that multiple stakeholders are included at a late stage of the innovation process—during the market launch. To some extent, this allows for the adaptation of the solution, but such adaptations are limited in nature. This study also identifies the agents who stimulate stakeholder inclusion as being mainly academic researchers and researchers linked to multi-institutional projects. Our findings indicate that innovation management thinking is rarely applied in the governance of research and innovation projects ‘born’ in academia. We suggest enhancing RRI theoretical development by incorporating elements of innovation management such as early inclusion of users in the innovation process. For practitioners, this means an extension of the design space to allow early stakeholder inclusion in the innovation process to ensure responsible outcomes. We also identified avenues for future research. There is a need to systematically investigate which tools and frameworks for deliberate stakeholder inclusion are relevant at the various stages of the innovation and development process.
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Trump BD, Cegan J, Wells E, Poinsatte-Jones K, Rycroft T, Warner C, Martin D, Perkins E, Wood MD, Linkov I. Co-evolution of physical and social sciences in synthetic biology. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2019; 39:351-365. [PMID: 30727764 DOI: 10.1080/07388551.2019.1566203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Emerging technologies research often covers various perspectives in disciplines and research areas ranging from hard sciences, engineering, policymaking, and sociology. However, the interrelationship between these different disciplinary domains, particularly the physical and social sciences, often occurs many years after a technology has matured and moved towards commercialization. Synthetic biology may serve an exception to this idea, where, since 2000, the physical and the social sciences communities have increasingly framed their research in response to various perspectives in biological engineering, risk assessment needs, governance challenges, and the social implications that the technology may incur. This paper reviews a broad collection of synthetic biology literature from 2000-2016, and demonstrates how the co-development of physical and social science communities has grown throughout synthetic biology's earliest stages of development. Further, this paper indicates that future co-development of synthetic biology scholarship will assist with significant challenges of the technology's risk assessment, governance, and public engagement needs, where an interdisciplinary approach is necessary to foster sustainable, risk-informed, and societally beneficial technological advances moving forward.
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- Benjamin D Trump
- a Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education , US Army Corps of Engineers, Oak Ridge , TN , USA.,b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- c SOL Engineering Services, LLC , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- c SOL Engineering Services, LLC , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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