03141oam 2200709I 450 991082904600332120240516210559.01-136-58161-81-280-68438-097866136613261-136-58162-60-203-15581-510.4324/9780203155813 (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(OCoLC)671700590(FINmELB)ELB139182(EXLCZ)99267000000020353320180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNanotechnology and sustainable development /laire Auplat1st ed.New 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 developmentNanotechnologyEnvironmental aspects.Information technologyEnvironmental aspects.Sustainable development.338.9/27Auplat Claire.1594147MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910829046003321Nanotechnology and sustainable development3914602UNINA