MoHoTalks #16 – Mélanie Marcel, Founder and CEO of SoScience
As early as 2003, many scientists had warned of a global pandemic risk related to the Coronavirus. All had then insisted on doing research on this subject. Yet the warning was not heard by governments and especially by companies that have the capacity to finance and accelerate this research.
One obvious reason is the importance of the economic prism which too often guides research. Worse, in the race for vaccines, we have seen how far the association of research to the common good has been able to confront geopolitical, capitalist and ideological issues.
To paraphrase Jean Tirole – Nobel Prize 2014, MoHo in this 16th MoHo Talks asks us: “Where has the search for the common good gone?”
For this exchange we are pleased to invite Mélanie Marcel, founder and CEO of SoScience, an innovation platform that aims to put scientific research at the service of society and the common good.
With it, we return – without filter – on the current situation of Scientific Research, its limits, its inconsistencies or its fragilities but also on this profound change that is born and that could, Tomorrow, put the right place Scientific Research at the service of Nature and Human.
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