Eudoxa was a Swedish think tank based in Stockholm, active from 2000 to 2016. It focused on science and technology policy, with an emphasis on liberal and transhumanist perspectives. Independent of political or religious affiliations, it engaged in public discourse and policy analysis on topics such as biotechnology, health care, intellectual property, and emerging technologies. Eudoxa organized seminars and conferences about these subjects, produced reports for corporations and organizations and promoted public debate. It had a staff consisting both of scientist and humanists, in order to bridge the rift between

The Two Cultures "The Two Cultures" is the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow, which was published in book form as ''The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution'' the same year. Its thesis was that s ...

on evaluating the effects of emerging technologies, and give a better analysis. Its intellectual inspiration derived much from the book

The Future and Its Enemies ''The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress'' is a 1998 book by Virginia Postrel where she describes the growing conflict in post-Cold War society between "dynamism" – marked by constant change, ...

Virginia Postrel Virginia Inman Postrel (born January 14, 1960) is an American political and cultural writer of broadly Libertarianism, libertarian, or Classical liberalism, classical liberal, views. She is a recipient of the Bastiat Prize (2011). Early life a ...

. Eudoxa discussed

biotechnology Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and Engineering Science, engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services. Specialists ...

harm reduction Harm reduction, or harm minimization, refers to a range of intentional practices and public health policies designed to lessen the negative social and/or physical consequences associated with various human behaviors, both legal and illegal. H ...

health care Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement or maintenance of health via the preventive healthcare, prevention, diagnosis, therapy, treatment, wikt:amelioration, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other disability, physic ...

nanotechnology Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm). At this scale, commonly known as the nanoscale, surface area and quantum mechanical effects become important in describing propertie ...

RFID Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder called a tag, a radio receiver, and a transmitter. When tri ...

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intellectual property Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, co ...

Recognition

In the 2014 ''Global Go To Think Tank Index Report'', published by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, Eudoxa was ranked 25th among the world's top science and technology think tanks. The think tank was closed in 2016.

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