Regulatory Horizons Council: the Governance of Engineering Biology

监管视野委员会：工程生物学的治理

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来源：

Regulatory Horizons Council(UK government)

来源地址：

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-horizons-council-the-governance-of-engineering-biology/regulatory-horizons-council-the-governance-of-engineering-biology

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政策法规

语种：

英语

原文发布日期：

2025-01-26

摘要：

Engineering biology (EB) is an overarching, agile and rapidly evolving technology platform with the potential to spawn transformative, or disruptive, innovations across a broad range of sectors of the economy. Its increasingly sophisticated range of genetic technologies, including genetic modification, synthetic biology, and genome editing, are enabling the creation of a new bioeconomy with the potential to disrupt or displace incumbent industries. The McKinsey Global Institute claims that “as much as 60 percent of the physical inputs to the global economy could, in principle, be produced biologically.Based on our interactions with stakeholders, we concluded that our most useful course of action would be to address the question, “How can we best manage overall governance of the complex array of products arising from the EB platform,” making recommendations on the most important issues and systemic interactions to be considered in providing future answers on a sector-by-sector basis or on the basis of novel classes of product. These recommendations are therefore intended to provide the framework for future decisions on EB governance, to be undertaken on a sectoral or market basis or based on common sets of properties.This report therefore addresses the challenges surrounding the effective governance of products of this broad range of enterprises. For regulators, there is an understandable desire for simplicity, to capture as many areas of application as possible under a single regulatory system; but that approach can result in the unnecessary failure of innovative developments that would otherwise contribute to growth of the UK economy, meeting Net Zero policy commitments or curing or preventing a disease. The challenge is to find an optimal balance between simplicity in governance systems and regulatory design, and their ability to handle a range of innovation scales and complexities.This report underscores the need for a dynamic, adaptive governance framework to support translation of EB products into markets and sets out recommendations for government that will help the UK to harness the potential of EB, contributing to economic growth, environmental sustainability, and public health."