Conference on Biotechnology: Scientific, Commercial and Societal Risks
February 25 and 26, 2005
At the Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University
Sponsored by the Zell Center for Risk Research

The “Biotechnology: Scientific, Commercial and Societal Risks” conference will address all dimensions of risk and uncertainty in biotechnology – from the endogenous risk of scientific innovation, commercial development and public safety; to the exogenous, highly volatile and little understood, market and public perception risks.

The conference brings together world scholars and leaders from the field of innovation, life science, management and government, to discuss and integrate ideas across the many disciplines. The topics are relevant to a wide array of fields including the sciences, economics, politics, and management.

On Friday, February 25, there will be a keynote evening speaker and on Saturday, February 26, there will be three panels moderated by a leading scholar in each field:

The Nature of Innovation Risk
Commercial Risk
Social Risk – Biodefense

The outcome of this scholarly conference will be an anthology of presentations and publications entitled, “Managing Biotech Risk”.

The organizers are Prof. Scott Stern and Prof. Alicia Löffler.

For more information and/or to register, email Jeanne Sheppard at the Center for Biotechnology.