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Nanotechnology and sustainable development /
Public institutions, academic researchers and financial analysts among others hail nanotechnologies as one of the most promising sectors of social and economic development. Calculations predict that it will become a trillion euro industry by 2015 and that it will bring about economic change of at le...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in technology, work and organizations ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Nanotechnology and Sustainable Development; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Nano, the Next Dimension of Sustainable Development; 1. Background and Road Map; 2. General Philosophy of the Book; PART II: Indicators of Nanotechnology Entrepreneurship; 3. Context and Defi nitions; 4. R & amp;D Architecture; 5. Research Centers and Infrastructure; 6. Nanorelated Patent Activities; 7. Nanoproducts Reaching the Market; 8. Summary; PART III: Nanodevelopment and Regulatory Practices; 9. Areas of Development; 10. Initial Positive Regulation.
- 11. Initial Restrictive Regulation12. Regulatory Frameworks and Exogenous Factors; 13. Sustainable Development and Nanobased Business Activities; Part IV: Innovative Practicesand Nanotechnology Institutional Emergence; 14. Introducing the Case of the ETC Group; 15. Theoretical Background; 16. Methodology; 17. Circumstances and Practices; 18. Findings; Part V: New Institutionalization Processes Risk Management and Public Engagement; 19. A Chronology of Nanotechnology Institutional Emergence; 20. Risk Management and Institutional Emergence; 21. A Case Study of Public Engagement.
- 22. Interpretation and FindingsPart VI: Towards A New Form of Technological Democracy; 23. Sustainable Development and New Governance Options for New Technologies; 24. Governance and Norm; 25. Interpreting Change; 26. Conclusion; Appendices; Nanotechnology and Sustainable Development Milestones; Chronology of Nanotechnology Involvement by the ETC Group: 2001-2007; Communication from the European Commission on the Precautionary Principle (2000); Notes; References; Index.