This paper analyses the public debate about labelling genetically modified food products. It presents the general lines of argument given by proponents and opponents of labelling, based on the debate in one country of the European Union (Spain). It defends labelling on the grounds that citizens...

This paper proposes a typology of two fundamentally opposing conceptualizations of managing technology under uncertainty: 'technology governability' and 'technology selection'. A wide variety of different versions of these idealized conceptualizations can be shown to underlie the controversies...

Since the commercialization of genetically modified (GM) crops and foods in Spain in 1996, these products have become a topic of public concern and conflict. Several important social protagonists from science, industry and civil society have become involved in the public debate. The conflicts...

This article presents the results of an analysis of the relationship between public sector research and industry development in the field of biotechnology in a peripheral region of the European Union: the Region of Valencia (Spain). It contributes empirical data on the delocalized impact of...