Biotechnology Policy across National Boundaries : The Science-Industrial Complex by D. West

A globalization of innovation has produced the most massive spurt in biotechnology in world history.? Businesses, universities, and non-governmental organizations are collaborating to produce a "science-industrial complex" in biotechnology.? Using case studies of stem cell research, cloning, genetically modified food, in-vitro fertilization, and chimeras in a number of Eastern and Western countries around the world, I argue that much of this biotech activity is global in nature and independent of state control.? This shift in the relative influence of state and non-state actors has led to the virtual deregulation of biotechnology and the liberation of innovation from geo-political constraints.? These trends post a number of interesting social, political, and ethical issues for the contemporary period and suggest the need to rethink how controversial moral issues are handled by the science-industrial complex.
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