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© 2018. This work is published under NOCC (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Abstract

The emergence of science-based industries after the Second World War, characterized by high technological intensity, created deep impacts on the economy, society, and on the scientific establishment itself. Science became a critical factor of competitiveness and economic growth and technology-driven research began to attract a majority of science-devoted funding. Mainstream science turned into techno-science and curiosity-driven research became the periphery of scientific endeavor. On the other hand, economic globalization nurtured a struggle between competing world orders implying the phasing out of the moral world of modernity. The resurgence of ethics is thus the other side of the new minted coin of globalization. Its aim is an impediment, rather than stimulation of new behavior, amenable to change and to create a sustainable new world.

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Title
Techno-science and Ethics
Author
Caraça, João 1 

 Senior Adviser to the Board of Administration, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, France; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science 
Pages
97-101
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Oct 2018
Publisher
The Risk Institute
ISSN
2038-5242
e-ISSN
2038-5250
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2136001626
Copyright
© 2018. This work is published under NOCC (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.