Citizen-driven innovation: stem cell scientists, patient advocates and financial innovators in the making of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)

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Citizen-driven innovation: stem cell scientists, patient advocates and financial innovators in the making of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)

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Author(s): Henry Etzkowitz ^a ^, ^b , Annika Rickne ^c

Publication date (Print): 1 December 2014

Journal: Prometheus

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Our attention in this paper is to the relationship between society and science in science-based innovation processes. We propose that citizens ‘and scientists’ actions are interlaced and that civil society provides a platform on which novel approaches to innovation may be formed. The empirical focus is set on stem cells and regenerative medicine in California, and the emergence of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). In an effort to advance the area, a coalition of actors went beyond conventional roles and ventured into a broader realm of ‘innovation in innovation’, creating a new financial and organizational model. This has played out in a number of interesting and fruitful ways, and implications can be drawn for innovation policy and practice.

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Journal ID (doi): 10.2307/j50022063

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Title: Prometheus

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN: 0810-9028

ISSN: 1470-1030

Publication date (Print): 1 December 2014

Volume: 32

Issue: 4 ( doiID: 10.1080/prometheus.32.issue-4 )

Pages: 369-384

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[ ^a ]International Triple Helix Institute, Silicon Valley, California, USA

[ ^b ]CIMR, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

[ ^c ]Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

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DOI: 10.1080/08109028.2015.1126984

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[1] Artz, F. (1966) The Development of Technical Education in France, 1500–1850, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

[2] Bergek, A., Jacobsson, S., Carlsson, B., Lindmark, S. and Rickne, A. (2008) ‘Analyzing the functional dynamics of technological innovation systems: a scheme of analysis’, Research Policy, 37, 3, pp.407–29.

[3] Bohr, N. (1945) ‘A challenge to civilization’, Science, 12 October, pp.363–64.

[4] Brown, M. (1971) The Social Responsibility of the Scientist, Free Press, New York.

[5] Bush, V. (1945) Science: the Endless Frontier, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC.

[6] Carlsson, B. and Stankiewicz, R. (1991) ‘On the nature, function and composition of technological systems’, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 1, 2, pp.93–118.

[7] CIRM (2007) CIRM press release, California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, available from http://www.cirm.ca.gov/press/pdf/2007/08-24-07a.pdf

[8] Cohen, J. and Arato, A. (1992) Civil Society and Political Theory, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

[9] Commoner, B. (1966) Science and Survival, Viking, New York.

[10] Eisinger, P. (1988) The Rise of the Entrepreneurial State, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI.

[11] Epstein, S. (1996) Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge, University of California Press, Berkeley CA.

[12] Etzkowitz, H. (2002) MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science, Routledge, Abingdon, UK.

[13] Etzkowitz, H. (2003) ‘Innovation in innovation: the Triple Helix of university–industry–government relations’, Social Science Information, 42, 3, pp.293–338.

[14] Etzkowitz, H. (2008) The Triple Helix: University–Industry–Government Innovation in Action, Routledge, Abingdon, UK.

[15] Etzkowitz, H. (2014) ‘Making a humanities town: knowledge-infused clusters, civic entrepreneurship and civil society in local innovation systems’, Triple Helix, 1, 12.

[16] Etzkowitz, H. and Etzkowitz, A. (2015) ‘Europe of the future and the future of Europe: the innovation/austerity choice’, Industry and Higher Education, 29, 2, pp.83–8.

[17] Guston, D. and Keniston, K. (eds) (1994) The Fragile Contract: University Science and the Federal Government, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

[18] Holland, S., Lebacqz, K. and Zoloth, L. (eds) (2001) The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

[19] Horowitz, G. (1998) Building Bombs, Talking Peace: The Political Activity of Manhattan Project Physicists before Hiroshima, Ph.D. thesis, Division of History and Social Science, Reed College, Portland OR.

[20] Mensch, G. (1979) Stalemate in Technology, Ballinger Publishing, Cambridge MA.

[21] Nevins, A. (1962) The State Universities and Democracy, University of Illinois, Urbana IL.

[22] Rainie, L. (2015) ‘Why Pew Research Center is going deeper on science’, available from http://pewrsr.ch/1A3gLyx [accessed November 2015].

[23] Rossiter, M. (1975) The Emergence of Agricultural Science: Justus Liebig and the Americans, 1840–1880, Yale University Press, New Haven CT.

[24] Solzhenitsyn, A. (2009) The First Circle, Harper, New York.

[25] Stewart, L. (1992) The Rise of Public Science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

[26] Whewell, W. (1847) The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Volume. 1, John W Parker, Cambridge.

[27] Williams, J. (1997) Energy and the Making of Modern California, University of Akron Press, Akron OH.