Responsibility and intellectual property in synthetic biology: A proposal for using Responsible Research and Innovation as a basic framework for intellectual property decisions in synthetic biology

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¹ Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
² Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain Biopolis SL, Parc Científic Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain.
³ Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain Fundació General de la Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain.

Harald König et al. EMBO Rep. 2015 Sep.

. 2015 Sep;16(9):1055-9.

doi: 10.15252/embr.201541048. Epub 2015 Aug 12.

¹ Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
² Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain Biopolis SL, Parc Científic Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain.
³ Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain Fundació General de la Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain.

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