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Technological University Dublin

2017

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The Future Of Food In Blade Runner 2049, Diarmuid Cawley Oct 2017

The Future Of Food In Blade Runner 2049, Diarmuid Cawley

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The science fiction genre has always been a hotbed for questions about the existence of life and what it means to be human. Food, like water and oxygen, is necessary to sustain life, but also is a key indicator of culture. One of the things that fascinates us about science fiction is how an imagined future culture might look. Blade Runner 2049, although not centred around food, interweaves food and agriculture into a dystopian narrative on evolution and a bio-engineered labour force, while asking us what it means to have memories and to be human.


Embedding Ethical And Sustainable Thinking In The Entrepreneurial Mindset, Kathleen Farrell May 2017

Embedding Ethical And Sustainable Thinking In The Entrepreneurial Mindset, Kathleen Farrell

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“Entrepreneurship education is essential not only to shape the mindsets of young people but also to provide the skills, knowledge and attitudes that are central to developing an entrepreneurial culture” (European Commission, 2016, b p. 9). The recent financial crisis has focused our attention more on the importance of ethics in business and management. EntreComp, the European Commission Competence Framework (2016) defines entrepreneurship as a transversal competence. The research question has to do with whether the European Commission is right in proposing ethical and sustainable thinking as an entrepreneurial competence. What support is there in the literature for putting forward …