| dc.contributor.author | Thorstensen, Erik | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-23T10:09:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-23T10:09:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1890-3991 | |
| dc.identifier.other | FRIDAID 1241717 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/3493 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The presence of experts holding patents and simultaneously providing policy advice on areas in which
they hold these patents poses several
normative questions. Through a comparative study of several
IPCC reports, this article documents the scope of this phenomenon and discusses it with respect to a
theory of conflict of interest. A review of IPCC writing teams suggests that the presence of patent-holders is largest on issues of infrastructure, industry and transport rather than single technologies.
According to insights from studies on conflict of interest, the presence of patent-holders creates an
increased risk of bias. This article investigates the possible link between patenting and conflicts of
interest, according to theoretical and empirical insights into the relationship between science and
society. | |
| dc.language.iso | en | language |
| dc.publisher | NTNU Open Access Journal | language |
| dc.rights | This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the
original author and source are credited. | language |
| dc.subject | Expert committees | |
| dc.subject | Patents | |
| dc.subject | Conflict of interest | |
| dc.subject | IPCC | |
| dc.subject | VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210::Bedriftsøkonomi: 213 | |
| dc.title | Patent-holders on expert committees. Can there be a conflict of interest? | language |
| dc.type | Journal article | language |
| dc.type | Peer reviewed | |
| dc.description.version | Publishedversion | |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5324/eip.v9i1.1833 | |
