[Sigkm-l] Just Published:: CSSP Electronic Working Paper Series :: Papers 1 & 2 by Pranav N. Desai & Alex Faulkner

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CSSP Electronic Working Paper Series on S&T Policy and 
Innovation Studies

ISSN: 0976-2051

Working
 Papers available are: 

CSSPEWPS 2:: Globalisation, Innovation, and Social Capital: Changing 
Nature of Indo-French S&T Cooperation

Pranav N. Desai (Centre for Studies in Science Policy,
 Jawaharlal Nehru University, India); April 2010 

Abstract
The
 present paper is an attempt to explore whether the Globalisation 
process has enhanced the significance of social capital as an 
explanatory variable of innovation. The focus of present paper is on the
 international dimensions of innovation policies that are likely to 
influence not only international investment decisions and competitive 
strategy but also technological change and development process. An 
attempt is made to analyze the changing nature of Indo-French S&T 
cooperation in the wider context of the Globalisation of innovation 
process and whether any discontinuity is likely to be introduced in the 
collaboration pattern and international cooperation policy. India and 
France provide an interesting background for the study of the same as 
India and France are emerging as major global players.

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CSSPEWPS 1:: How Law Makes Technoscience: The Shaping of Expectations, 
Actors and Accountabilities in Regenerative Medicine in Europe

Alex Faulkner (King's College, London, UK);
 March 2010

Abstract
The paper undertakes a textual 
analysis of the Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP) Regulation 
which passed into law in the European Union (EU) in 2007, using the 
analytic concept of performativity. The ATMP document is significant for
 the development of regenerative medicine in the EU and globally. 
Drawing on concepts from socio-legal studies, innovation studies and 
science & technology studies, the text is discourse-analysed with a 
focus on: scientific-industry structure; production and technology; 
expectation and vision; rights and responsibilities; and actors - 
regulatory actors, participants in regenerative medicine production, and
 the public. The analysis shows a tension between standardisation and 
imprecision in the conceptual scaffolding of the legislative text, and 
reveals a number of 'elephants in the room' – including the concept of 
regenerative medicine itself. The reasons for the imprecision and 
conspicuous absences are discussed. Such texts combine material 
significant to key concerns of recent theorising of innovative 
technologies, such as technology expectations, sector-building and the 
stabilisation of technology. Referring to philosopher John Austin's 
well-known work on 'how to do things with words', Austin's concept of 
the 'conventional consequences' of a performative text is referred to in
 order to argue that legislative texts are a special class of document 
which should be accorded a more prominent place in studies of the 
governance and emergence of new scientific-technological zones and 
sectors.

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Further Details: http://www.jnu.ac.in/Academics/Schools/SchoolOfSocialSciences/CSSP/EWPS.htm 

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Anup Kumar Das

New Delhi, India

http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/

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