I would suggest that the claim that "the preembryo is not a human being" does not enjoy probability. To my mind the arguments put forth to substantiate the claim fall short because they do not fully appropriate the biological activity of the preembryo, on the one hand, and because of an exaggeration of the importance of certain biological data, on the other. Instead, the case could be made that...

In this paper we analyse the degree of achievement of the Regional Innovation Strategy goals. This is an EU Commission policy oriented toward the promotion of regional STI policy design through the involvement of regional stakeholders. We analyse two categories of objectives: those dealing with process participation and those dealing with behavioural change. Our results show that the overall ac...

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In this paper we describe a process called Diegetic Innovation Templating (DiT) whereby science fiction and fantasy stories are used as a systematic source of ideas for design and product innovation. We also introduce a concept called the Diegetic Gap which acts a metric for assessing how compatible a particular piece of fiction is to a given innovation space. We illustrate the Diegetic Innovat...

This paper constructs a model where the identity of subsidized industries changes over time. An increase in the R&D subsidy raises innovation in industries that are currently subsidized, lowers innovation in the others, and raises aggregate innovation.