From Biotechnology to Nanotechnology: What Can We Learn from Earlier Technologies?

In: Bulletin of science, technology & society, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 34-39

Abstract

Using Canada as a case study, this article argues that regulating biotechnology and nanotechnology is made unnecessarily complex and inherently unstable because of a failure to consult the public early and of-ten enough. Furthermore, it is argued that future regulators (and promoters) of nanotechnology may learn valuable lessons from the mistakes made in regulating biotechnology.