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1 Some examples of STS work on this topic include: Brown and Michael (2003), Brown et al. (2000), Fortun (2001), Hedgecoe and Martin (2003) and Van Lente and Rip (1998).
2 The SD notes that the OECD has experience developing indicators and metrics in information technology and communications, suggesting that this expertise will serve for the analogous problem of measuring the bioeconomy.
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Hilgartner, S. Making the Bioeconomy Measurable: Politics of an Emerging Anticipatory Machinery. BioSocieties 2, 382–386 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1745855207005819
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