Patzke_Three_Panels_&_Abstracts

Three Abstracts and Three Panel Discriptions

Discourses of innovation incorporating economic incentives are at the forefront of scientific labor. Universities fund tech campuses, biology labs support ‘first-to-file’ patent reform, and IT companies devote mass effort to so-called ‘patent thickets.’ Underlying these sites of innovation are assumptions concerning both the future of scientific and technological development and a re-writing of histories of discoveries. This panel presents work from a diverse group of scholars that explores current practices of innovation. “Everything under the sun and made by man” is the oft-cited consideration of patentable subject matter in the United States. And yet patent disputes have resulted in a special Federal Court to adjudicate such conflicts. This short paper discusses the role ‘legal fictions’ play in such efforts. These ‘tests’ for patentability run the gamut from the mundane (a test for similarity) to the fantastical (a ‘magic microscope’ to see into the body). Legal fictions reveal the way the law (and judges on the bench) make sense of new scientific discoveries and attempt to codify them within existing socio-legal practices. __possible participants:__ - Lindsay - preserving innovation (something about ICT for Development) - Ellen - innovation in ‘maker spaces’
 * 1 PANEL**
 * TITLE:** __Making Sense of Innovation: dialogues of entrepreneurship__
 * Abstract Title**: __Magical Innovation: Legal Determinates of New Discoveries__

(in progress) **#2****PANEL** Information technologies and data aggregation frame many of the ‘practices’ of science and technology. This panel looks at how those practices are embodied by individuals who attempt to identify their work as.... Health and well-being in the biotech industry is often linked with profitability. However, within the field of genetics, there is a movement to ‘open’ access to DNA sequences and testing in an effort to circumvent the financial gain of diagnostic testing by large biotech labs. This paper looks at the work of Steven Salzberg and the idea of do-it-yourself genetic testing to evaluate how gene testing affects an individuals notion of healthy…. __possible participants:__ - Dominic - ethnographers - James - tracking energy consumptions - KP - health care and gene sequences - Lindsey - preserving innovation (something about ICT for Development)
 * TITLE:** __Embodied ‘data’ praxis: IT and individuals__
 * Abstract Title:** __‘Open’ DNA: Subversive innovation in biotechnologies__

(in progress) **#3 Panel**
 * TITLE:** __Emergent Marginalities: Stakeholders and risk scenarios in science and technology__

The downside to scientific and technological innovation is disaster. Risk assessment is a means by which to account for possible malfunction, but stakeholder analysis is often reliant on managerial analysis dependent on proximity and affect. This panel presents scholarship focused on new modes of identifying and incorporating stakeholders into risk assessment stuff…..

Abstract: Genetic Alliance is a public advocacy group with many functions. This paper focuses on the organization as a site of alternative pharmaceutical/treatment monitoring for genetic disease….

#4: stake holders: KP - what about a panel on stakeholders - how is community defined (and given traction/avenues of engagement/involvement) in / during particular 'conflicts', **risk scenarios**, disasters? - health, waste, nuclear stuff - where do they 'fail' - or are obviously biased - what are they marginalizing, who's not invited or just excluded - Guy, Pedro, Karin, James