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- - This chapter reviews key societal and ethical concerns surrounding industrial biotechnology, using recent examples like synthetic artemisinin and engineered algae oil to illustrate these issues.
- - The main themes discussed include sustainability, naturalness, innovation trajectories, risk management, and economic justice, highlighting how conflicting public opinions impact the acceptance of biotechnological advancements.
- - The authors suggest addressing these ethical concerns through the framework of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) to help guide future innovations.
Article Abstract
In this chapter we aim to give an overview of the main societal and ethical issues that are currently voiced around industrial biotechnology. We will illustrate this with some recent cases, such as the development of synthetic artemisinin, synthetic vanillin and vegetable oil produced by engineered algae. We show that current societal and ethical issues in industrial biotechnology centre on the following five themes: sustainability, naturalness, innovation trajectories, risk management and economic justice. In each of these themes, clashing public opinions fuel the public debate on the acceptability of new industrial biotechnology. In some cases this has led to the failure of otherwise promising innovations. In the last part, we provide suggestions on how to deal with these ethical and societal aspects based on the approach of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).
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