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Biotechnology policy convergence in continental Europe? Political institutions, problem framing and learning.
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German Policy Studies
- Article date:
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December 22, 2006
- Author:
- Bandelow, Nils C
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Biotechnology policy has been an issue of German and European policy studies since the early 1990s. Starting with a book that complained about "unpolitical" processes and regulations (Gill 1991), a lot of young researchers selected the area for their PhDtheses then. These students have established study groups and presented their results in several edited volumes (Martinsen 1997; Simonis/Martinsen/Saretzki 2000; Edler/Kuhlmann/Behrens 2003).
The pioneers of biotechnology policy research were driven by two forces: An idealistic one and a research-oriented one. Firstly, some of them were associated with the anti-genetic-engineering-movement or even actively participated in ...