Team:KULeuven/Law&Patents
From 2011.igem.org
Law & Patents
1. Introduction
The KU Leuven 2011 iGEM team had the unique opportunity to meet the Policy Officer for Governance and Ethics at the Directorate-General for research at the European Commission in Brussels. Alice Uwineza and Bakul Vinchhi represented the team and had an intriguing talk about self-governance, justice, religion, “do-it-yourself-community” and patents. As a part of a good self- governance practice we would like to share the new insights we gained from some of our questions.
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2. Self-Governance
What are the steps taken by the European Commission to promote self-governance to tackle risks in synthetic biology?