Emerging biotechnologies: full report - Nuffield Council on Bioethics

Acknowledgments
The <strong>Council</strong> wishes to extend its thanks to the members of the Working Party for their time, hard work,
expertise and contributions to the <strong>report</strong>. In addition, the <strong>Council</strong> would like to thank those who
attended the various fact-finding meetings held by the Working Party and all those who responded to
the consultation. Particular thanks should be extended to those who agreed to act as external
reviewers for an earlier draft of the <strong>report</strong>, who provided so much insightful guidance and commentary.
Further detail on these processes – and people – can be found in the Appendices.
The Working Party commissioned two illuminating <strong>report</strong>s concerning important elements of the
project: an explanation of the significance of the concept of ‘emergence’ in the UK patent system, and
a review of what information could be obtained about the sources of funding for the research and
development of <strong>biotechnologies</strong>. For these two <strong>report</strong>s we would like to thank, respectively, Dr Siva
Thambisetty of the Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science and Dr
Michael Hopkins of SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex.
Finally, we wish to thank Kate Harvey of the <strong>Nuffield</strong> <strong>Council</strong> on Bioethics Secretariat for her work in
helping to complete the production of the <strong>report</strong>.
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