Reconstructing biotechnologies: critical social analyses
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These attacks had a basis in government efforts to promote agbiotech as an instrument of a specific political-economic agenda. European policies have promoted capital-intensive technological innovation as an essential means for more efficient production methods, more lucrative products, and thus a competitive advantage in the global economy. This agenda corresponds to a series of policy slogans – the ‘Biosociety’ in the 1980s, the ‘knowledge-based economy’ in the 1990s, and the ‘KnowledgeBased Bio-Economy’ (KBBE) in the current decade.
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