On the elusive nature of the public

Beumer, Koen

doi:10.1038/s41565-019-0468-0

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“…We assume stakeholders – including ‘the public’ – have an elusive nature ( cf . Beumer, 2019). One stakeholder only represents a temporary and partial perspective.…”

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Valuation in health and ageing innovation practices

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In the development and deployment of health and ageing innovations, underlying values such as privacy or quality of life are often seen as a relatively stable starting point, if considered at all. However, values are neither stable nor singular. This paper introduces a valuation framework to explore the co-constitution of values and technological innovations. A careful and ongoing reflection on values and valuation, in particular in innovation practices targeted at older people, is crucial when aiming to increase sustainable innovations. Therefore, we include a Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) perspective to technological development and innovation, to understand better the construction and co-constitution of ageing-in-place technologies. This framework is developed following a review of literature on values and valuation in the broad field of SSH. The proposed valuation framework consists of three core elements: (a) value multiplicity, (b) value dynamism, and (c) valuation implications. To demonstrate potential applicability of the framework, we conducted a thought experiment on values and valuation practices related to the development and potential further deployment of a COVID-19 health app in the Netherlands. This experiment pays special attention to multiple values at stake and implications for older adults who age in place. We argue this valuation framework provokes reflection on dynamic and multiple values underlying technology use and non-use, and contributes to responsible health and ageing innovations.

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“…We assume stakeholders – including ‘the public’ – have an elusive nature ( cf . Beumer, 2019). One stakeholder only represents a temporary and partial perspective.…”

Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…The US EPA has used the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to require the registration of nano-pesticides as “new” substances and to refine relevant registration policies. The EU member states register pesticides under the Plant Protection Products Regulation, which applies to the registration of single pesticides and mixtures, regardless of size, and this includes the registration of nano-pesticides [ 126 ].…”

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Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for the delivery of agrochemicals: strategies towards sustainable agriculture

Sun

et al. 2022

J Nanobiotechnol

166

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Nanomaterials (NMs) have received considerable attention in the field of agrochemicals due to their special properties, such as small particle size, surface structure, solubility and chemical composition. The application of NMs and nanotechnology in agrochemicals dramatically overcomes the defects of conventional agrochemicals, including low bioavailability, easy photolysis, and organic solvent pollution, etc. In this review, we describe advances in the application of NMs in chemical pesticides and fertilizers, which are the two earliest and most researched areas of NMs in agrochemicals. Besides, this article concerns with the new applications of NMs in other agrochemicals, such as bio-pesticides, nucleic acid pesticides, plant growth regulators (PGRs), and pheromone. We also discuss challenges and the industrialization trend of NMs in the field of agrochemicals. Constructing nano-agrochemical delivery system via NMs and nanotechnology facilitates the improvement of the stability and dispersion of active ingredients, promotes the precise delivery of agrochemicals, reduces residual pollution and decreases labor cost in different application scenarios, which is potential to maintain the sustainability of agricultural systems and improve food security by increasing the efficacy of agricultural inputs. Graphical Abstract

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“…In addition, by assuming the unconditional desirability of the wide availability of biotechnologies, democratic publics are portrayed as passive recipients of scientific work. Instead, democratic theory invites us to take publics seriously: to actively listen to publics and to include their interests and concerns in the design and application of new biotechnologies 7,8 , so that science and society to become mutually responsive to each other 9 . The timeframe from first usage to widespread availability certainly matters, but the praiseworthy objective of democratizing biotechnology invites us to move beyond that.…”

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Democratizing biotechnology requires more than availability

Beumer

2021

Nat Biotechnol

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Innovation Information Initiative. " We are grateful to Amazon Web Services for a grant from their COVID Emergency Response team for support of cloud-based computing and platform expenses. We thank Adrian Gibbs, Gilbert Faure and Marie-Christine Béné for their edits, review and constructive comments on the earlier version of the SARS-CoV-2 report prototype. The extended online version can be accessed at https://link.lens.org/ tk10f5UfAbb.

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On the elusive nature of the public

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Valuation in health and ageing innovation practices

Valuation in health and ageing innovation practices

Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for the delivery of agrochemicals: strategies towards sustainable agriculture

Democratizing biotechnology requires more than availability

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