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Networked research infrastructures and their governance: The case of biobanking

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  • Ingeborg Meijer
  • Jordi Molas-Gallart
  • Pauline Mattsson

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Research infrastructures such as biobanks are increasingly important for science and society. This paper focuses on the transition of biobanks from being a research tool of individual research groups to complex, internationally networked research infrastructures supporting large-scale biomedical investigations, and the challenges that this change poses for governance in relation to management, funding, ethical and legal issues. A major problem for most publicly funded biobanks is that funding remains time-limited and is normally associated with specific research projects. Yet, as biobanks are becoming large research infrastructures, they are requiring new forms of sustainable funding. Based on ten in-depth case studies with biobanks of different sizes from different EU countries, we conclude that the growth in scale triggers the need for different governance structures, based on the specialization and professionalization of technical tasks, the formalization of many management practices and a shift in funding structures. Copyright The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com, Oxford University Press.

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  • Ingeborg Meijer & Jordi Molas-Gallart & Pauline Mattsson, 2012. "Networked research infrastructures and their governance: The case of biobanking," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 39(4), pages 491-499, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:39:y:2012:i:4:p:491-499
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    1. Emery, Tom, 2019. "The Sustainability of Social Science Survey Infrastructures," SocArXiv gts2w, Center for Open Science.

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