The word ESG or Environmental, Social, and Governance Metrics are used to describe the environmental, social, and governance performance of a company. This can be done in many ways- via surveys that are sent to members of the public who then weigh in on what they believe are the most important factors for measuring environmental impacts or by performing research into how companies rank when it comes to key issues. Some people would argue that this is not necessary while others would argue that if you want your business to succeed then these metrics should be taken into consideration.
This Research Spotlight provides a summary of the academic literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities including:
• The relation between ESG activities and firm value
• The impact of environmental and social engagements on firm performance
• The market reaction to ESG events
• The relation between ESG and agency problems
• The performance of socially responsible investment (SRI) funds
This Research Spotlight expands upon issues introduced in the Quick Guide “Investors and Activism”.
This discussion session gathers key influencers from the ESG performance ranking community to discuss recent major developments in ESG research and ratings, and what those mean for companies (featuring important recent announcements by GISR, Sustainalytics and Bloomberg, among others). The conversation will explore the evolution of measurement and disclosure principles for purposes of ESG performance rankings – including the question of driving more transparency – in an effort to help companies trying to understand the complex ESG research and ratings landscape. This session would be particularly useful to any company experiencing a mismatch between what it's reporting on its sustainability performance, on the one hand, and what its external stakeholders are asking or expecting, on the other.
Presentation by Vittorio Lusvarghi, chair of the Professional Accountants in Business Committee Sustainability Task Force, at the Institute of Cost Accountants of India's National Cost Convention, New Delhi, India, March 2012.
The word ESG or Environmental, Social, and Governance Metrics are used to describe the environmental, social, and governance performance of a company. This can be done in many ways- via surveys that are sent to members of the public who then weigh in on what they believe are the most important factors for measuring environmental impacts or by performing research into how companies rank when it comes to key issues. Some people would argue that this is not necessary while others would argue that if you want your business to succeed then these metrics should be taken into consideration.
This Research Spotlight provides a summary of the academic literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities including:
• The relation between ESG activities and firm value
• The impact of environmental and social engagements on firm performance
• The market reaction to ESG events
• The relation between ESG and agency problems
• The performance of socially responsible investment (SRI) funds
This Research Spotlight expands upon issues introduced in the Quick Guide “Investors and Activism”.
This discussion session gathers key influencers from the ESG performance ranking community to discuss recent major developments in ESG research and ratings, and what those mean for companies (featuring important recent announcements by GISR, Sustainalytics and Bloomberg, among others). The conversation will explore the evolution of measurement and disclosure principles for purposes of ESG performance rankings – including the question of driving more transparency – in an effort to help companies trying to understand the complex ESG research and ratings landscape. This session would be particularly useful to any company experiencing a mismatch between what it's reporting on its sustainability performance, on the one hand, and what its external stakeholders are asking or expecting, on the other.
Presentation by Vittorio Lusvarghi, chair of the Professional Accountants in Business Committee Sustainability Task Force, at the Institute of Cost Accountants of India's National Cost Convention, New Delhi, India, March 2012.
By David F. Larcker, Brian Tayan, Dottie Schindlinger and Anne Kors, CGRI Survey Series. Corporate Governance Research Initiative, Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governance and the Diligent Institute, November 2019
New research from the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and the Diligent Institute finds that corporate directors are not as shareholder-centric as commonly believed and that companies do not put the needs of shareholders significantly above the needs of their employees or society at large. Instead, directors pay considerable attention to important stakeholders—particularly their workforce—and take the interests of these groups into account as part of their long-term business planning.
• While directors are largely satisfied with their ESG-related efforts, they do not believe the outside world understands or appreciates the work they do.
• Directors recognize that tensions exist between shareholder and stakeholder interests. That said,
most believe their companies successfully balance this tension.
• In general, directors reject the view that their companies have a short-term investment horizon in
running their businesses.
In the summer of 2019, the Diligent Institute and the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University surveyed nearly 200 directors of public and private corporations globally to better understand how they balance shareholder and stakeholder needs.
Slides from NACRO Conference in Seattle August 2009, used as an introduction to an industry panel discussion on academic-industry relations (See http://web.mac.com/nacro/NACRO/FAQ.html for more info)
Even five years after the financial crisis, concerns around negative public perception continue to be a front-burner issue at financial services companies. What may be exacerbating this negative perception both externally and internally is risk.
1.State the definition and goals of bioentrepreneurship
2.Understand the major reasons for new product failure and how to avoid them
3.Next steps id you are interested in bioscience/bioengineering entrepreneurship
Responsible research and innovation in a rapidly changing and increasingly te...RRI Tools
Responsible research and innovation in a rapidly changing and increasingly telecoupled world
Barron Joseph Orr
Professor and Geospatial Extension Specialist, University of Alicante & University of Arizona
RRI Tools Final Conference - Brussels, 21-22 November 2016
PLENARY SESSION: Facing the societal challenges of our time
Food security - RRI in Agricultural research for development. By Pascal KosuthRRI Tools
Food security - RRI in Agricultural research for development
Pascal Kosuth
Director of the Agropolis Foundation
RRI Tools Final Conference - Brussels, 21-22 November 2016
PLENARY SESSION: Facing the societal challenges of our time
By David F. Larcker, Brian Tayan, Dottie Schindlinger and Anne Kors, CGRI Survey Series. Corporate Governance Research Initiative, Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governance and the Diligent Institute, November 2019
New research from the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and the Diligent Institute finds that corporate directors are not as shareholder-centric as commonly believed and that companies do not put the needs of shareholders significantly above the needs of their employees or society at large. Instead, directors pay considerable attention to important stakeholders—particularly their workforce—and take the interests of these groups into account as part of their long-term business planning.
• While directors are largely satisfied with their ESG-related efforts, they do not believe the outside world understands or appreciates the work they do.
• Directors recognize that tensions exist between shareholder and stakeholder interests. That said,
most believe their companies successfully balance this tension.
• In general, directors reject the view that their companies have a short-term investment horizon in
running their businesses.
In the summer of 2019, the Diligent Institute and the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University surveyed nearly 200 directors of public and private corporations globally to better understand how they balance shareholder and stakeholder needs.
Slides from NACRO Conference in Seattle August 2009, used as an introduction to an industry panel discussion on academic-industry relations (See http://web.mac.com/nacro/NACRO/FAQ.html for more info)
Even five years after the financial crisis, concerns around negative public perception continue to be a front-burner issue at financial services companies. What may be exacerbating this negative perception both externally and internally is risk.
1.State the definition and goals of bioentrepreneurship
2.Understand the major reasons for new product failure and how to avoid them
3.Next steps id you are interested in bioscience/bioengineering entrepreneurship
Responsible research and innovation in a rapidly changing and increasingly te...RRI Tools
Responsible research and innovation in a rapidly changing and increasingly telecoupled world
Barron Joseph Orr
Professor and Geospatial Extension Specialist, University of Alicante & University of Arizona
RRI Tools Final Conference - Brussels, 21-22 November 2016
PLENARY SESSION: Facing the societal challenges of our time
Food security - RRI in Agricultural research for development. By Pascal KosuthRRI Tools
Food security - RRI in Agricultural research for development
Pascal Kosuth
Director of the Agropolis Foundation
RRI Tools Final Conference - Brussels, 21-22 November 2016
PLENARY SESSION: Facing the societal challenges of our time
How can Open Science and responsible medical research meet the challenge of i...RRI Tools
How can Open Science and responsible medical research meet the challenge of improving health?
Trish Groves
Editor-in-chief, BMJ Open and Honorary deputy editor, The British Medical Journal
RRI Tools Final Conference - Brussels, 21-22 November 2016
PLENARY SESSION: Facing the societal challenges of our time
Going Global: international perspectives on responsibility. By María VillavecesRRI Tools
Going Global: international perspectives on responsibility
María Villaveces
Chief executive officer, Colombian Association for the Advancement of Science Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education.
RRI Tools Final Conference - Brussels, 21-22 November 2016
Going Global: international perspectives on responsibility. By Rajesh Tandon RRI Tools
Going Global: international perspectives on responsibility
Rajesh Tandon
President of Participatory Research in Asia and co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community
RRI Tools Final Conference - Brussels, 21-22 November 2016
The RRI HUBS: In the name of responsible research and Innovation. By Rosalia ...RRI Tools
The RRI HUBS: In the name of responsible research and Innovation
Rosalia Vargas
President of Ciência Viva - Agência Nacional para a Cultura Científica e Tecnológica
RRI Tools Final Conference - Brussels, 21-22 November 2016
Opening Session
RRI Tools: main goals and outcomes
Delivering a pan-European Programme of Training & Advocacy. By Melanie SmallmanRRI Tools
Delivering a pan-European Programme of Training & Advocacy
Melanie Smallman
Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London
RRI Tools Final Conference - Brussels, 21-22 November 2016
Opening Session
RRI Tools: main goals and outcomes
What´s that thing called RRI? By Jacqueline Broerse RRI Tools
What´s that thing called RRI?
Jacqueline Broerse
Director of the Athena Institute, VU University Amsterdam
RRI Tools Final Conference - Brussels, 21-22 November 2016
Opening Session
RRI Tools: main goals and outcomes
Challenging responsibility: How to make RRI work in a sustainable manner. By ...RRI Tools
Challenging responsibility: How to make RRI work in a sustainable manner
Ulrike Felt, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna
RRI Tools Final Conference
Opening Lecture
Brussels, 21 November 2016
RRI Tools webinar - Become an RRI pioneer at your schoolRRI Tools
Webinar held by European Schoolnet on 19 July 2016
Video of the webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaYAcQ81C0s
The integration of Responsible Research and Innovation principles in teaching and learning activities supports multidisciplinarity and stronger students' engagement as well as their acquisition of critical thinking and collaborative learning skills.
It also prepares them to make informed and evidence-based choices about society’s future and help them to better understand existing careers paths, entrepreneurship and innovation processes, and complexities of the professional world.
By Lars Klüver, Coordinator of Engage2020, CIMULACT and HBP Citizen Consultations and Director of the Danish Board of Technology Foundation
Presentation at the second RRI Tools Train the Trainers, July 2016
The European project RRI Tools aims at building a Responsible Research & Innovation Toolkit, with the concerned stakeholders, to make RRI happen in real life!
More information about RRI Tools: http://www.rri-tools.eu/
Latest news: http://blog.rri-tools.eu/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RRITools
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RRI.Tools.Project?fref=ts
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=8111498
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiXjh5T5uu2ka7NpbQkzFrA
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/130674936@N05/
RRI Toolkit for EU National Contact PointsRRI Tools
Overview of what is RRI and how the RRI Toolkit -developed by the RRI Tools project- can help to implement it accross Europe, especially through the National Contact Points (NCPs).
This presentation was given by Eva Zuazua and Daniel Garcia (La Caixa Foundation) in the NCPs network meeting (SiS.net) held in Madrid (Spain) on December 2nd, 2015.
Slide 1: Title Slide
Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Slide 2: Introduction to Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Definition: Extrachromosomal inheritance refers to the transmission of genetic material that is not found within the nucleus.
Key Components: Involves genes located in mitochondria, chloroplasts, and plasmids.
Slide 3: Mitochondrial Inheritance
Mitochondria: Organelles responsible for energy production.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in mitochondria.
Inheritance Pattern: Maternally inherited, meaning it is passed from mothers to all their offspring.
Diseases: Examples include Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) and mitochondrial myopathy.
Slide 4: Chloroplast Inheritance
Chloroplasts: Organelles responsible for photosynthesis in plants.
Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in chloroplasts.
Inheritance Pattern: Often maternally inherited in most plants, but can vary in some species.
Examples: Variegation in plants, where leaf color patterns are determined by chloroplast DNA.
Slide 5: Plasmid Inheritance
Plasmids: Small, circular DNA molecules found in bacteria and some eukaryotes.
Features: Can carry antibiotic resistance genes and can be transferred between cells through processes like conjugation.
Significance: Important in biotechnology for gene cloning and genetic engineering.
Slide 6: Mechanisms of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Non-Mendelian Patterns: Do not follow Mendel’s laws of inheritance.
Cytoplasmic Segregation: During cell division, organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts are randomly distributed to daughter cells.
Heteroplasmy: Presence of more than one type of organellar genome within a cell, leading to variation in expression.
Slide 7: Examples of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Four O’clock Plant (Mirabilis jalapa): Shows variegated leaves due to different cpDNA in leaf cells.
Petite Mutants in Yeast: Result from mutations in mitochondrial DNA affecting respiration.
Slide 8: Importance of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Evolution: Provides insight into the evolution of eukaryotic cells.
Medicine: Understanding mitochondrial inheritance helps in diagnosing and treating mitochondrial diseases.
Agriculture: Chloroplast inheritance can be used in plant breeding and genetic modification.
Slide 9: Recent Research and Advances
Gene Editing: Techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 are being used to edit mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA.
Therapies: Development of mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) for preventing mitochondrial diseases.
Slide 10: Conclusion
Summary: Extrachromosomal inheritance involves the transmission of genetic material outside the nucleus and plays a crucial role in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology.
Future Directions: Continued research and technological advancements hold promise for new treatments and applications.
Slide 11: Questions and Discussion
Invite Audience: Open the floor for any questions or further discussion on the topic.
A brief information about the SCOP protein database used in bioinformatics.
The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for the structural and evolutionary relationships of proteins. It provides a detailed and curated classification of protein structures, grouping them into families, superfamilies, and folds based on their structural and sequence similarities.
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This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
Richard's aventures in two entangled wonderlandsRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
6. Innovation Process
Company
Management Idea Generation &
Research
Prioritising Societal
Challenges
Involving
Stakeholders
Anticipating
Impacts
Reviewing &
Adapting
Market &
Impact
Reviewing &
Adapting
Minimizing
Negative Effects
Contributing to
Solving Societal
Challenges
Ethical Conduct
Transparency
Science Education
Mission
Data Management
Data Sharing
Diversity & Equality
Employee Health &
Safety
Employee
Responsibility
Employee Health &
Safety
Development &
Testing
Developing with
Stakeholders
Implementing
Safeguards
Sustainable
Production &
Sourcing
Reviewing &
Adapting
Editor's Notes
So there are three final thoughts I’d like to leave with the panel – our two cents, on how to scale up:
Evidence on benefits and drivers of RRI are needed
All principles impossible to implement – support in prioritizing RRI issues and actions
Ways for how to operationalise RRI in industry context
That’s is what we will work on and hope we can start this conversation here today.