Commercializing Iceland: Biotechnology, Culture, and Global-Local Linkages in the Information Society

• Main Author: Eischen, Kyle
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2001
• Subjects: Geography of Information Technology; Fuller; Iceland
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6kw524cr

The development of the Iceland Genetic Database provides an entry point into considerations of some of the most essential social questions arising from new economic and technological changes in the global environment. On one level, there are very serious issues of privacy, competition, commercializa...