Bioeconomies

1. Introduction
Vincenzo Pavone, Joanna Goven

Part I. Promissory and Performative: Remaking Institutions for the Bioeconomy

2. The “Entrepreneurial State” and the Leveraging of Life in the Field of Regenerative Medicine
John Gardner, Andrew Webster, James Mittra

3. Technologies of Governance: Science, State and Citizen in Visions of the Bioeconomy
Tess Doezema, J. Benjamin Hurlbut

4. “Having a Structuring Effect on Europe”: The Innovative Medicines Initiative and the Construction of the European Health Bioeconomy
Luca Marelli, Giuseppe Testa

Part II. Making Value and Remaking Research in the Bioeconomies

5. The Underworlds Project and the “Collective Microbiome”: Mining Biovalue from Sewage
Luísa Reis-Castro

6. Bio-Identification, Value Creation and the Reproductive Bioeconomy: Insights from the Reprogenetics Sector in Spain
Vincenzo Pavone

7. Making Value(s) Through Social Contracts for Biomedical Population Research
Erik Aarden

Part III. Bioeconomies as Sites of Power and Struggle

8. Data-Sharing Politics and the Logics of Competition in Biobanking
Aaro Tupasela

9. Reproducing the Border: Kinship Legalities in the Bioeconomy
Sonja Wichelen

10. Embedded Promissory Futures: The Rise of Networked Agribusiness in Argentina’s Bioeconomy
Pierre Delvenne

Part IV. Capitalizing on Altruism: Donation, Care, and Unequal Relations in Global Bioeconomies

11. Egg Donation in the Making: Gender, Selection and (In)Visibilities in the Spanish Bioeconomy of Reproduction
Sara Lafuente Funes

12. Thinking (Bioeconomies) Through Care: Patients’ Engagement with the Bioeconomies of Parenting
Pablo Santoro, Carmen Romero-Bachiller

13. Who Is My Donor? A New Bioeconomy of Blood and Its Changing Ontology
Emma King

14. Conclusion
Vincenzo Pavone, Joanna Goven

Keywords: Social Sciences, Science and Technology Studies, Innovation/Technology Management, Philosophy of Science, Bioethics, Public Policy, Life Sciences, general