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Economic potential analysis

An economic rationale analysis for investing in the use of micro-organisms for the production of artificial bone implants.

Because our research contributes to the base of fundamental knowledge, it could be used as preliminary research for many applications. A brief look into the future potential, from an economic perspective, could possibly offer the rationale for a deeper research into the applications. As we will see, there are many opportunities and challenges that pop up and need to be addressed, even in this early stage. The main goal of this potential analysis is to construct a bridge between the pure scientific research and the commercial environment, resulting in a marketable product. In this analysis, we mainly focus on the use of Spot E.Shape principles for producing novel ways of producing artificial bone replacements. Although a similar analysis can be made for each of the other applications of the project. For more details on this, please go to the application section.



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References

[1] Ulrike Felt, Brian Wynne, Maria Eduarda Gonçalves, Sheila Jasanoff, Michel Callon, Maria Jepsen, Pierre-Benoit Joly, Zdenek Konopasek, Stefan May, Claudia Neubauer, Arie Rip, Karen Siune, Andy Stirling, and Mariachiara Tallacchini. Taking European knowledge society seriously. 2007. [  .pdf ]
[2] Alison Hill, Mike Michael, Peter Wheale, Rene Von Schomberg, and Peter Glasner. Engineering Acceptance: Representations of 'The Public' in Debates on Biotechnology. The social management of genetic Engineering, pages 201-217, 1998. [  .pdf ]
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[5] Peter Raeymaekers. Design ontmoet biologie: synthetische biologie in Vlaanderen. Brussel IST. [  .pdf ]



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How we interacted with the public in and outside of KU-Leuven.

Ethics

We invited a panel of experts to discuss ethical questions with us.

Education

We went teaching and devised an educational card game, which is fun to play.

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Symposium

We hosted a symposium with other iGEM teams attended and got interesting speakers to broaden our horizons.

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