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As a public good, it provides the basis for the “right to science” as set out in article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 3 Indeed, without science as a public good, the right to science is meaningless. It is also important to distinguish between “public goods” and “the public/common good” or the “public interest.”
- Global Challenges
- Societal Implications of Scientific and Technological Advances
- Adapting The Practices of Science
The global environment and human sustainability
Global temperatures continue to rise at an accelerated rate and global CO2 concentrations are at record levels even as emissions have temporarily fallen as consequence of the COVID-driven economic slowdown. It is likely that we will breach the target to limit the global temperature rise to no more than 1.5oabove pre-industrial levels, agreed at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris. Although global targets have been agreed at a political level, the necessary coordinated actio...
Science and geopolitics
Addressing the global crises of the modern era, of the environment, of widening inequalities and poverty, would be best served within a geopolitical frame where there is broad consensus and the ability to take coordinated action. Instead, we have social, political and ideological polarisation, characterised by diverging certainties that are inimical to the sceptical spirit of science, recently compounded by the re-emergence of an ancient evil, the unprovoked attack by one state on another, an...
Major scientific discoveries and technological innovations invariably have implications for society, often through unanticipated uses to which society puts them. The acts of discovery and development carry with them the responsibility to explore, monitor, warn and seek to mitigate potential harms by those most likely to understand what these might ...
It is an imperative for science that it adapts to changing circumstances, including changing priorities as new horizons of discovery open up, with new technology-enabled ways of working and changes in the social setting within which science operates.
Aug 18, 2017 · Both non-excludability and non-rivalry are based on the nature of public goods as embedded in a given socio-economic context. Thus far, these definitions have been phrased in an absolute way: a good is either public or not public. In practice, goods may also be approximately, or more-or-less, public. The paradigm of a pure public good is an idea.
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In economic terms science serves the public good most profoundly through its creation of ‘public goods’. Such goods have no market value. They are the basis for most private goods. They include such things as free education, free roads, an honest police force and the rule of law, which we may use for private benefit
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Feb 26, 2021 · Scientific knowledge in its pure form is a classic public good. It is a keystone for innovation, and in its more applied forms is a basic component of our economy. Although recent technical advances have stimulated its generation and greatly accelerated its spread, other forces may limit its public-domain characteristics.
Jul 7, 2022 · Here we examine public use and public funding of science by linking tens of millions of scientific publications from all scientific fields to their upstream funding support and downstream...
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This paper introduces a measurement framework to examine public good features of science, allowing us to study public uses of science, the public funding of science, and how public use and public funding relate.
