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Kinks in the Triple Helix: legal complexities of moving from bench to bedside

Triple-helix innovation drove biomedicine, but unresolved legal questions still shape ownership, profits, and public benefit.

Robert M Cook-Deegan

New Tools for Science Policy

Forging a New Paradigm for Biosecurity Governance

Biosecurity governance is shifting: reactive compliance fails modern biotech. A proactive paradigm can improve safety, security, and growth.

Sam Evans

Engineering our Planet: From Designed Interventions to Interdisciplinary Programs and Participatory Platforms, Part I

Part I: CDR at the Engagement Frontier (RSVP REQUIRED: use link)

The first of the two-part event will convene CDR Public Engagement sponsors, researchers, and practitioners to stimulate, simulate, and facilitate conversations with the science and technology policy research, design, and engagement communities in Washington, DC, and online.

John Mimikakis, Rory Jacobson, Lisa Margonelli, Emily Hostetler, Mara Karageozian, Amanda Borth, David Tomblin, Arthur Daemmrich, Mahmud Farooque

Engineering our Planet: From Designed Interventions to Interdisciplinary Programs and Participatory Platforms, Part II

Part II: Building Platforms for Geoengineering Research and Governance (RSVP REQUIRED: Use link)

The second of the two-part event will bring together Geoengineering Policy, Research, and Engagement leaders and producers to facilitate conversations with the science and technology policy research, design, and engagement communities in Washington, DC, and online.

Kei Koizumi, Andrew Light, Michael Thompson, Ben Kalina, Mahmud Farooque, Arthur Daemmrich

New Tools for Science Policy

Genetic Data after Bankruptcy: Policy Lessons From 23andMe

When 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, policymakers were unprepared for what happens to millions of consumers’ genetic data. This program examines bankruptcy law and policy options to better protect consumers.

Samuel E. "Gene" Fishel

Democratizing Climate Governance: An Inconvenient Necessity?

Is democracy an inconvenient constraint on climate action or an essential condition for solving it?

Drawing on transatlantic experience and two decades of participatory innovation, the discussion will explore:

• The original ambition of closing the democratic gap in global climate governance
• The evolving tension between legitimacy and speed in participatory processes
• The shift from climate as a technical problem to climate as a human welfare and development problem
• Competing governance logics: technocratic urgency versus democratic engagement
• The implications of rising populism, authoritarian tendencies, and declining trust in institutions

Ultimately, the conversation will ask whether the more urgent crisis is not only climate change, but a crisis of confidence in institutions, and whether closing democratic gaps is a necessary condition for rebuilding that confidence and enabling collective action.

Bjørn Bedsted, Mahmud Farooque, K. L. Akerlof

New Tools for Science Policy

Influence Mapper: A Large Language Model-based Tool to Examine Sponsor Influence in Health Research

Nicholas B. King