1st Edition

Embedding New Technologies into Society A Regulatory, Ethical and Societal Perspective

Edited By Diana M. Bowman, Elen Stokes, Arie Rip Copyright 2017
404 Pages 3 Color & 4 B/W Illustrations
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

404 Pages 3 Color & 4 B/W Illustrations
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

The embedding of any new technologies in society is challenging. The evolving state of the scientific art, often-unquantifiable risks and ill-defined developmental trajectories have the potential to hinder innovation and/or the commercial success of a technology. The are, however, a number of tools that can now be utilized by stakeholders to bridge the chasm that exists between the science and... Read more

Introduction - Foxes become hedgehogs

Elen Stokes, Diana Bowman and Arie Rip

VARIETY IN THE GOVERNANCE OF NEWLY EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

Reflexive co-evolution and governance patterns

Harro van Lente and Arie Rip

Governance approaches for emerging technologies

Bärbel Dorbeck-Jung and Diana Bowman

Society as a laboratory to experiment with new technologies

Ibo van de Poel

Care and technoscience: re-embedding the future of innovation

Chris Groves

Division of moral labour as an element in the governance of emerging technologies

Arie Rip

Ethical reflexivity as capacity building: supportive tools and approaches

Clare Shelley-Egan and Federica Lucivero

 

PROMISES, POLITICS AND PARTICULARITIES OF NANOTECHNOLOGIES

The demand side of innovation governance: Demand articulation processes in the case of nano-based sensor technologies

Haico te Kulve and Kornelia Konrad

Evolving Patterns of Governance of and by Expectations The Graphene Hype Wave

Kornelia Konrad and Carla Alvial

Transnational challenges of governing new technologies: The case of nanotechnology

Evica Kica and Ramses Wessel

Co-Regulation of Nanomaterials: On Collaborative Business Association Activities directed at Contributing to Occupational Health and Safety

Aline Reichow

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE OF DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

The ‘Metamorphosis’ of the drone: the governance challenges of drone technology in border surveillance

Luisa Marin

On the disruptive potential of 3D printing

Pierre Delvenne and Lara Vigneron

Modifying Materials, Mosquitoes and Measures: The Regulation of Nanotechnologies and Synthetic Biology

Diana Bowman, Elen Stokes and Ben Trump

Conclusions

Arie Rip, Diana Bowman and Elen Stokes

Biography

Bowman, Diana M.; Stokes, Elen; Rip, Arie