An International Framework Agreement on Scientific and Technological Innovation and Regulation

28 Pages Posted: 7 Jun 2009 Last revised: 18 Oct 2013

Date Written: June 4, 2009

Abstract

This paper - written for an edited volume addressing how law and policy can keep pace with highly dynamic scientific and technological innovation - proposes an international framework to coordinate and facilitate national responses to innovations that may create significant risks or pose social, cultural or ethical challenges, and to steer national regulatory responses toward greater effectiveness, efficiency, legitimacy and public-interest orientation. The paper suggests an international framework convention on innovation and regulation, which could be supplemented by specific protocols in particular areas, such as nanotechnology or synthetic biology, or on particular cross-cutting issues. It also suggests a set of institutions and procedures to encourage the production, sharing and assessment of early-stage information, steer national systems for science policy-making and regulation, and coordinate concrete regulatory responses. Of necessity, these institutions would operate at all three levels of global governance: inter-state, trans-governmental and transnational.

Keywords: science, technology, innovation, regulation, risk, international, transnational, framework convention

JEL Classification: F02, F42, I18, K32, K33, O33, O38

Suggested Citation

Abbott, Kenneth Wayne, An International Framework Agreement on Scientific and Technological Innovation and Regulation (June 4, 2009). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1414430 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1414430

Kenneth Wayne Abbott (Contact Author)

Arizona State University ( email )

Box 877906
Tempe, AZ 85287-7906
United States
480-965-5917 (Phone)

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