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Mapping the Bioeconomy: The knowledge-based economy and the biosciences

27-28 April 2006

Please note, this research programme has now concluded and these pages are maintained here as a record of the activities of the Institute for Advanced Studies.

Organisers: Bron Szerszynski and Brian Wynne

This workshop gathered together scholars from a range of disciplines to critically explore both the concept and the reality of the bioeconomy, focussing on the following themes:

• The spirit of the bioeconomy
• Mapping the bioeconomy
• Biovalue
• Knowledge production
• Bioeconomic subjectivities

Papers

The bioeconomy as a contemporary political imaginary; the historical emergence of the bioeconomy; the bioeconomy as a techno-economic paradigm. - Nikolas Rose; Larry Reynolds; Mick Dillon

Mapping the bioeconomy; red, green and white biotech; the actors of the bioeconomy: states, corporations, universities, farmers etc; geographies of power - Les Levidow; Sue Mayer; Paul Nightingale; Brian Salter

Capturing biovalue; matter, vitality, technology and law - Catherine Waldby; Richard Twine; Paul Oldham; Javier Lezaun

Spaces of technoscientific production; capital and epistemology – the effects of commercialisation on the production of knowledge / Governance, risk, publics and regulation - Kaushik Sunder Rajan; Brian Wynne; Ruth McNally

Living in the bioeconomy; biosurveillance; productive and resistant subjectivities; populations, ecologies, bodies; class, race, gender in the bioeconomy - (Stefano Harney; Alex Plows; Melinda Cooper

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