Policy

Policy Briefs

Policy Brief 31 April 2012: Safety and Non-Safety Issues in the Evaluation of GM Wheat

Policy Brief 30 March 2012: Open Scientific Innovation Models for IP Management

Policy Brief 29 February 2012: Advocacy Hyperlinked: Using a Webcrawler for Managing Issues

Policy Brief 28 January 2012: Understanding Ambivalence – An Output of Biofuels Engagement

Policy Brief 27 December 2011: Citation Analysis and the Evolution of Collaborative R&D

Policy Brief 26 November 2011: Institutional and Behaviourial Analysis of Technology Transfer

Policy Brief 25 October 2011:Anti-GM Activism and Social Media: The Price of Apathy

Policy Brief 24 September 2011: Public Participation in Science Policy: Cross-National Differences

Policy Brief 23 August 2011: Improving Regulatory and Governance Oversight and Management

Policy Brief 22 July 2011: Commercializing Research and Patent Landscape Methodology

Policy Brief 21 June 2011: Foresight Scenarios Theory and Drivers of Change

Policy Brief 20 May 2011: Media Analysis through Narrative

Policy Brief 19 April 2011: The Integration of Ethics into Regulation of Biotechnology

Policy Brief 18 March 2011: Performance of Canadian Technology Transfer Offices

Policy Brief 17 February 2011: The Second GE3LS Delphi Survey and Foresight Scenarios

Policy Brief 16 January 2011: Discourse Analysis and the Impact of Public Engagement on Policy

Compilation of Policy Briefs 1-15.

Policy Brief 15 December 2010: Novelty as a Regulatory Trigger for New Bioproducts and Crops

Policy Brief 14 November 2010: Patent Infringement Remedies Have Limited Effects

Policy Brief 13 October 2010: Scenario Methods for the Governance of ABC Technologies

Policy Brief 12 September 2010: Democracy, governance and public engagement

Policy Brief 11 August 2010: Institutional Analysis Development (IAD) Framework

Policy Brief 10 July 2010: Type I and Type II Errors in Decision Systems

Policy Brief 9 June 2010: Integrated GE3LS within the Genome Canada ABC Competition

Policy Brief 8 May 2010: Policy Network: An Essential Component of Policy Design

Policy Brief 7 April 2010: Intellectual Property Landscapes for Bioproducts and Crops

Policy Brief 6 March 2010: The Delphi method and its application to genomics and GE3LS

Policy Brief 5 February 2010: Impact and uptake of democratic engagement in science policy

Policy Brief 4 January 2010: Improving regulatory oversight & governance management

Policy Brief 3 December 2009: Intellectual property management & technology policy

Policy Brief 2 November 2009: Relationship building – A key social convention for researchers.

Policy Brief 1 October 2009: Launch of an international research network.

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Policy Input

October 27 , 2011 Dr. Peter Phillips comments to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food (Study: Growing Forward 2)
March 1, 2011 Dr. Peter Phillips comments to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food
February 18, 2011 Submission to the Canadian Expert Review Panel on Research and Development.
February 3,  2011 Input to the Government of Canada Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food.Prepared by E. Richard Gold, Professor, McGill University Faculty of Law with the assistance of other VALGEN™ investigators David Castle, Jeremy de Beer, Peter Phillips and Stuart Smyth.
October 5, 2010 Dr. Peter Phillips, University of Saskatchewan presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food.
March 2010 A Response to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Consultation Paper. New Approaches to Biofuels. Submitted by: Peter Phillips, David Castle, Stuart Smyth, Henry Venema, Matt McCandless and Colleen Christensen
March 2010 Bioproducts, Biofuels and the Emerging Bioeconomy: An Analysis of the Public Debate. Report to Agriculture and Agri-foods Canada. Presented by E.F. Einsiedel.
December 10, 2009 Agri-Food Innovation and Biotechnology. Peter Phillips presentation to Saskatchewan Deputy Minister’s Council, Regina.