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Title Technoscience in progress : managing the uncertainty of nanotechnology / edited by Simone Arnaldi, Andrea Lorenzet and Federica Russo.

Imprint Amsterdam : IOS Press, 2009.

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Note Includes index.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Title page; Contents; Introduction. Managing the Uncertainty of Nanotechnology Across Boundaries and Scales; Beyond Regulation. Three Questions and One Proposal for Public Deliberation; The Challenges of "Upstream" Communication and Public Engagement for Irish Nanotechnology; Risk, Responsibility, Rights, Regulation and Representation in the Value Chain of Nano-Products; Emerging Strategies and Coordination in Nanocoating Innovation; Future Available? Fiction and Nonfiction in Scenarios About Nanotechnology.
Summary Nanotechnology seems to escape boundaries and definitions. This title adds to the collective effort of charting the multiple and heterogeneous dimensions that characterize nanotechnology, by analyzing the numerous modalities through which different stakeholders and actors provide definitions, attribute meaning and sense to nanoenabled innovations.
Note English.
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Subject Nanotechnology.
Uncertainty (Information theory)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Reference.
Nanotechnology. (OCoLC)fst01032639
Uncertainty (Information theory) (OCoLC)fst01160838
Alt Author Arnaldi, Simone.
Lorenzet, Andrea.
Russo, Federica, 1978-
IOS Press.
ISBN 9781607504412 (electronic bk.)
1607504413 (electronic bk.)
1607504413
1607500221
9781607500223