benefit society

Craig Hamnett, who chairs the Wigtown Community Inn community benefit society, said it was a relief not to lose the centuries-old hostelry.

“Unfortunately, for individuals such as myself and my family, the way the research contribution was portrayed is that it would benefit society as a whole,” she said.

In general, he said, the aim was to encourage science that would benefit society.

The best way to do that is to implement policies that provide “public goods” that benefit society in general, in contrast to private goods that go to only a few people in particular.

You can’t really anticipate how technologies might benefit society without any input from people in society.