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    The document outlines debate topics for several weeks of a class on innovation, enterprise, and society. Week 4 debates whether intellectual property rights are economically and morally justified. Week 6 debates whether mechanization like robotics reduces the need for human workers. Week 8 debates whether larger, established corporations are more innovative than startups. Week 13 debates whether a universal basic income is the best response to increasing job loss to robots. Week 14 involves student groups introducing a bioethics dilemma and leading discussion on potential resolutions.

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    The document outlines debate topics for several weeks of a class on innovation, enterprise, and society. Week 4 debates whether intellectual property rights are economically and morally justified. Week 6 debates whether mechanization like robotics reduces the need for human workers. Week 8 debates whether larger, established corporations are more innovative than startups. Week 13 debates whether a universal basic income is the best response to increasing job loss to robots. Week 14 involves student groups introducing a bioethics dilemma and leading discussion on potential resolutions.

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    The document outlines debate topics for several weeks of a class on innovation, enterprise, and society. Week 4 debates whether intellectual property rights are economically and morally justified. Week 6 debates whether mechanization like robotics reduces the need for human workers. Week 8 debates whether larger, established corporations are more innovative than startups. Week 13 debates whether a universal basic income is the best response to increasing job loss to robots. Week 14 involves student groups introducing a bioethics dilemma and leading discussion on potential resolutions.

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    Debate Topics: Innovation, Enterprise and Society Session 2: 2020

    WEEK 4: TOPIC 4: “The substantial legal and financial sanctions characterizing the contemporary
    system of intellectual property rights are defensible on economic (efficiency) and moral grounds.”

    WEEK 6: TOPIC 6: “Mechanization (for example robotics) does not in itself reduce the need and
    opportunities for waged workers.”

    WEEK 8: TOPIC 8: “On balance, older, larger and more established corporations are more successful
    at innovation than newer, smaller start-ups”.

    WEEK 13: TOPIC 12: “A universal basic minimum income is the best policy response to the increasing
    replacement of human labour with robots in advanced industrial economies.”

    WEEK 14: TOPIC 14: This is not strictly speaking a debate. Each of the two groups is required to
    choose an issue related to dilemmas in bioethics. You are to introduce the dilemma to the class and
    frame a series of questions to put to the class about how this dilemma might be resolved. If you
    cannot think of an issue – I have uploaded various kinds of source material under Week 14 in the
    Learning Materials Section on VUWS.

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