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The Growing Risk of Contrapreneurs

August 28, 2015

An expedient policy process relying on precaution and hazard-based regulations has allowed contrapreneurs to cement their anti-innovation strategy at the heart of Brussels

Posted by David Zaruk

Agriculture & Food, BioTech, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, Energy, Environment, EU Priorities and Opinion, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers, Health & Lifestyle, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking, Science & Research, Sustainable Dev.

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It’s about Innovation – Deal with it! An open letter to Corporate Europe Observatory

October 21, 2013

Dear CEO, I am really ready to give up. I have written to you, and about you, many times hoping to get you to see things more objectively. I have even offered to come to your offices (at no charge) and explain to your staff what it is like to work in a company. I can only conclude that you are not interested in listening to anyone you might not agree with. Thus I have resorted to writing you this open letter.

Posted by David Zaruk

Competition, EU Priorities and Opinion, Health & Lifestyle, Innovation and Growth, Public Affairs, Science & Research

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David Zaruk is the Risk-Monger. He has been an EU risk and science communications specialist since 2001, active in EU policy events from REACH and SCALE to the Pesticides Directive, from Science in Society questions to the use of the Precautionary Principle. He was part of the team that set up GreenFacts to encourage a wider use of evidence-based decision-making in the EU on environmental health matters. He is an adjunct professor at Vesalius College and Facultés Universitaires St-Louis where he lectures on Risk Communications, EU Lobbying, Corporate Communications and PR. He still does some consulting work at Risk Perception Management, but only for friends and he refuses the timesheet mentality that has made consulting into a mercenary-like profession. In the past, he has been employed by Solvay, Cefic and Burson-Marsteller, retiring from "active work" in 2006.

He is also a graduate, like most of us, from Google University, and while he is tempted to pretend to be an expert on everything he searches on, he believes that there are scholars who have spent years working to become experts in their fields whose views merit more value than the collective.

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