03056oam 2200673I 450 991046232130332120200520144314.01-280-68438-097866136613261-136-58162-60-203-15581-510.4324/9780203155813 (CKB)2670000000203533(EBL)981626(OCoLC)804665609(SSID)ssj0000681616(PQKBManifestationID)11396615(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000681616(PQKBWorkID)10674522(PQKB)10829895(MiAaPQ)EBC981626(Au-PeEL)EBL981626(CaPaEBR)ebr10568471(CaONFJC)MIL366132(OCoLC)796803874(EXLCZ)99267000000020353320180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNanotechnology and sustainable development /laire AuplatNew York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (199 p.)Routledge studies in technology, work and organization ;8Description based upon print version of record.1-138-96064-0 0-415-89182-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Nano, the next dimension of sustainable development -- pt. 2. Indicators of nanotechnology entrepreneurship -- pt. 3. Nanodevelopment and regulatory practices -- pt. 4. Innovative practices and nanotechnology institutional emergence -- pt. 5. New institutionalization processes risk management and public engagement -- pt. 6. Towards a new form of technological democracy.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 least the same magnitude as the industrial revolution. Nanotechnology is recent, younger by some thirty years than biotechnology, but it appears at a point in time in human history where there is a convergence between the globalization of access to information and increasing awareness of the importRoutledge studies in technology, work and organizations ;8.NanotechnologyEnvironmental aspectsInformation technologyEnvironmental aspectsSustainable developmentElectronic books.NanotechnologyEnvironmental aspects.Information technologyEnvironmental aspects.Sustainable development.338.9/27Auplat Claire.948521MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462321303321Nanotechnology and sustainable development2144097UNINA