出版社：AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law
摘要：Those having even a passing familiarity with the broad and eclectic field that is “nanotechnologies” will know that its development relies on the work and collaboration of a diverse range of disciplines and interdisciplines, and that existing and notional products are targeted at the healthcare, environmental, construction, packaging, cosmetics, and other markets. In short, nanotechnologies represent a bewildering array of technologies, each branded as “nano” (or small). Nanotechnologies are seen as innovative solvers of a smorgasbord of problems, on the one hand, and uncertain experimental technologies posing a smorgasbord of risks on the other. They are characterised as both simple and complex, as promising and horrifying, as unproblematic and boundary-pushing, all depending on the context and the speaker’s perspective
