Exploring the Role of Dedicated Online Biotechnology News Providers in the Innovation Economy

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ID5337100
AuthorsMichael Morrison (0000-0001-6870-6673, University of York, corresponding author), Lucas Cornips (Maastricht University)
Year2012
Volume37
Issue3
Pages262-285
Publication date2012-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243911420581
OpenAlexW2157725072
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited18

In this article, the authors examine the role of dedicated online biotechnology news providers in disseminating and shaping stories of technological promise within the bioeconomy. In this field, communication of future-orientated claims is closely linked to a firm's ability to attract speculative investment and so dedicated biotech news services play an important role in facilitating this interaction between technology producers and investors. Using the emerging field of regenerative medicine (RM) as a case study, the authors illustrate how coverage of RM biotechnologies and firms by these online news services acts to increase the intensity of promissory communication and how interaction between news providers can create dominant framings of particular events in which some aspects are emphasized while others are marginalized. Considered cumulatively, the authors show how these accounts ultimately present a highly linear account of technological innovation which renders the actions of multiple technoscientific actors meaningful to investors but at a cost to addressing the local contingencies of scientific research

Biology · Business · Dissemination · Political science · Public relations · Telecommunications · Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Engineering · Law · Science, Research, and Medicine · Biotechnology · Marketing

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