IPTS special issue on ethics and research evaluation now available
'Research ethics and RTD evaluation' is the subject of a special issue of the IPTS report, produced by the Joint Research Centre's Institute for prospective technological studies. 'Ethics and evaluation are integral parts of science management and science policy,' write the report editors. 'The current political pressure for public accountability in research and the far reaching impacts and controversies generated by research...brought about changes that facilitate increased stakeholder involvement and a possible rapprochement of the scientific community with the general public.' Papers on the following topics are presented in the report: - Ethical issue in research evaluation; - Ethics; RTD and evaluation; - Evaluation in science: an antidote to impunity; - Results oriented management : a new ethical context for research evaluation; - Food and agriculture biotechnology: ethical issues behind research policy choices; - Medical uses of gene technology: ethical and social concerns.