Abstract This article addresses the dynamic and contested processes of establishing new legal arrangements in the marine bioeconomy, and spatio-legal aspects of establishing a rights system for marine bioprospecting in Norway is explored. There are great expectations from authorities and researchers that marine bioprospecting can have major effects on future economies, through innovations that would lead to producing medicine as well as food, fodder, cosmetics and other products. Vital to this process are questions regarding rights to access, collect and utilise resources, and the sharing of costs and benefits, which are potentially high at both ends of this spectrum. Currently, a state driven process aims to better regulate and control bioprospecting within areas under Norwegian jurisdiction. The present paper examines the challenging process of establishing such regulatory framework where actors struggle to gain discursive hegemony by obtaining legal backing for claims to genetic resources in the Norwegian littoral. Four discursive arguments are discerned and it is argued that knowledge and understanding about these discursive processes is of vital importance when policies for the future bioeconomy are shaped. Rights systems developed within the hegemonic discourses might ‘lock’ sectors in the bioeconomy into certain development pathways that have consequences for the potential value of the bioeconomy as an asset for the society as a whole.

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规范海洋生物勘探。探索建立新的蓝色生物经济监管机制

摘要 本文讨论了在海洋生物经济中建立新法律安排的动态和有争议的过程，并探讨了在挪威建立海洋生物勘探权利体系的空间法律方面。当局和研究人员寄予厚望，海洋生物勘探可以通过创新来生产药物以及食品、饲料、化妆品和其他产品，从而对未来的经济产生重大影响。对这一过程至关重要的是有关获取、收集和利用资源的权利以及成本和收益共享的问题，这些问题在该频谱的两端都可能很高。目前，国家驱动的过程旨在更好地规范和控制挪威管辖范围内的生物勘探。本文件探讨了建立此类监管框架的挑战性过程，在该过程中，参与者努力通过获得对挪威沿海遗传资源主张的法律支持来获得话语霸权。识别出四个话语论点，并认为在制定未来生物经济政策时，对这些话语过程的知识和理解至关重要。在霸权话语中发展起来的权利体系可能会将生物经济中的部门“锁定”到某些发展路径中，这会对生物经济作为整个社会的资产的潜在价值产生影响。识别出四个话语论点，并认为在制定未来生物经济政策时，对这些话语过程的知识和理解至关重要。在霸权话语中发展起来的权利体系可能会将生物经济中的部门“锁定”到某些发展路径中，这会对生物经济作为整个社会的资产的潜在价值产生影响。识别出四个话语论点，并认为在制定未来生物经济政策时，对这些话语过程的知识和理解至关重要。在霸权话语中发展起来的权利体系可能会将生物经济中的部门“锁定”到某些发展路径中，这会对生物经济作为整个社会的资产的潜在价值产生影响。