From Biotechnology to Nanotechnology: What Can We Learn from Earlier Technologies?

1 February 2004

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society

Vol. 24 (1) , 34-39
https://doi.org/10.1177/0270467604263119

Abstract

Using Canada as a case study, this article argues that regulating biotechnology and nanotechnology is made unnecessarily complex and inherently unstable because of a failure to consult the public early and of-ten enough. Furthermore, it is argued that future regulators (and promoters) of nanotechnology may learn valuable lessons from the mistakes made in regulating biotechnology.

Keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY
CANADA
REGULA- TION
NANOTECHNOLOGY
SCIENCE EDUCATION
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Assessing the Nature of Innovation in These Fields
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2002