Vincenzo Pavone

TL;DR: The bioeconomy is becoming increasingly prominent in policy and scholarly literature, but critical examination of the concept is lacking as mentioned in this paper, arguing that the bio economy should be understood as a poli...

TL;DR: Analysis of focus groups and survey data suggests that people did not assess SOSTs in abstract terms but in relation to the specific institutional and social context of implementation, and that concerned citizens saw their privacy being infringed without having their security enhanced, whilst trusting citizenssaw their security being increased without their privacybeing affected.

TL;DR: In this article, an alternative approach, namely in-context trajectory evaluation, is proposed to assess the potential risks of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from both a social and an ecological perspective.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that bibliometrics have the potential to widen scientific participation by allowing non-academic stakeholders to access scientific decision making, thereby increasing the democratisation of science.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present two case studies of civil society participation in the field of novel biotechnologies in Germany and in Spain, showing that current institutional approaches, which are inspired by the "democratization of expertise" perspective and set up essentially at the "downstream" level, seem less promising than "upstream" models of participation, which, in contrast, appear more meaningful from a "co-production of science" framing.