Leggi in Italiano
See also: all meeting and lesson videos and The Self At Your Wrist.
Categories Bioethics, Design, Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Nanotechnology, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, Roboethics, biotechnology, enhancement, genetics
Jos Malda awarded the 2015 Nanonica Prize
Press Release: The 2015 Nanonica Prize has been awarded to Jos Malda, associate professor at the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands, for developing a new microfiber 3D printing technique that can increase the stiffness of a hydrogel composite by up to 54-fold, within a similar range as that of the human cartilage. - More
by Redazione FGB, 18 April 2016 Permalink
Read also: other posts in Nanotechnology
Nanonica Prize 2015
Fondazione Giannino Bassetti is pleased to announce its partnership with Nanonica, a Swiss based-company created in 2006, that together with its Spanish-based subsidiary Nanonica Europe S.L. is devoted to knowledge transfer from Academia to Industry in the areas of nanotechnology and microtechnology. - More
by Redazione FGB, 26 November 2015 Permalink
Categories Nanotechnology, New Technologies
Read also: Innovation and Politics and An Ethics For Emerging Technologies
Risk and Responsibility in Innovation. Lecture by Michael Bruch. Videos.
On November 27, 2012 at Università Bocconi, Michael Bruch held a lecture on the role insurers can play in the development of innovative technologies such as nanotechnologies. Here the videos and other materials. - More
by Redazione FGB, 4 January 2013 Permalink
Read also: Risk and Responsibility in Innovation.
Risk and Responsibility in Innovation. Lecture by Michael Bruch.
On November 27, 2012 at Università Bocconi, Michael Bruch, Head of Research & Development - Risk Consulting at Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty (AGCS) and risk expert at the Allianz Center for Technology (AZT), held a lecture on the role insurers can play in the development of innovative technologies such as nanotechnologies. - More
by Redazione FGB, 4 January 2013 Permalink
Leggi in Italiano
Read also: the presentation of the lecture and other lectures in Sapere, fare, potere. Verso un'innovazione responsabile
A Handbook for Responsible Innovation
It is a collection of articles written by Jonathan Hankins over the last 2 years. The handbook is divided into 'macro arguments': synthetic biology and nanotechnology, bioethics and information and knowledge, with the opening chapter offering an overview of developments in thinking around responsible innovation. - More
by Redazione FGB, 6 December 2012 Permalink
Read also: other FGB publications and Preventative governance
Categories Nanotechnology, Publication
A Research Strategy for Engineered Nanotechnologies
Earlier this year the National Research Council of the National Academies published a document entitled 'A Research Strategy for Environmental, Health and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanotechnologies' - More
by Redazione FGB, 16 March 2012 Permalink
Read also: Hands-on nanotechnology in Milan
Preventative governance
On Wednesday 7th July, Professor David Guston of the Arizona State University presented the work of the CSPO (Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes) and the CSN-ASU (Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University) at an invitation seminar held here at the Bassetti Foundation... - More
by Redazione FGB, 16 July 2010 Permalink
Read also: The Rightful Place Of Science Conference, Regulating nanotechnology through private actors? by B. Laurent and Responsibility in Innovation interview with L. Gasman

Different forms of expertise
On Monday 3rd of May a seminar was held in The Bassetti Foundation conference suite with Dr Wiebe E. Bijker, Professor of Technology and Society at The University of Maastricht in Holland. we now make the video and audio recordings of the seminar available in English. - More
by Redazione FGB, 12 May 2010 Permalink
Read also: Il ruolo degli esperti nella democrazia by Margherita Fronte
Regulating nanotechnology through private actors?
by Brice Laurent. While some public officials claim that the potential risks of nanotechnology will be managed as early as possible, numerous questions are raised about the relevance of existing regulation for the many different nano-products. - More
by Redazione FGB, 23 February 2009 Permalink
Read also: Asking the relevant questions about public participation by Brice Laurent
Categories Nanotechnology, Responsibility and Science
Asking the relevant questions about public participation
by Brice Laurent. Participatory experiments in nanotechnology have been numerous, but their outcomes are uncertain. Some have criticized the little interest these mechanisms have received in policy circles. The Grenoble case is telling for that matter. - More
by Redazione FGB, 28 January 2009 Permalink
See also: the interview with Christine Peterson by Jeff Ubois, Governance and participation in nanotechnology by Jonathan Hankins, Nanotechnology in this site (2005)
European Food Safety Authority is launching a public consultation
EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) is launching a public consultation on its draft scientific opinion on the Potential Risks Arising from Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies on Food and Feed safety and the Environment. The work follows a request from the European Commission (EC) to EFSA for advice on this issue in 2007. EFSA's opinion will help inform consideration of any future EU measures in relation to nanotechnologies in the food and feed area. - More
by Redazione FGB, 25 November 2008 Permalink
Read also: Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food in Cristina Grasseni's blog.
Categories Food and Feed, Nanotechnology
Without risk there is no progress
In this his second posting on nanotechnology, Jonathan Hankins looks at the work of the International Risk Governence Council, their white paper on risk governance and their policy brief on nanotechnology risk governance. - More
by Redazione FGB, 29 July 2008 Permalink
See also: Governance and participation in nanotechnology and the interview with Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute on Nanotechnology (by Jeff Ubois)
Categories Nanotechnology
Governance and participation in nanotechnology
This is the first of a number of postings that Jonathan Hankins will devote to nanotechnologies, their novelty in technoscientific society and their impact on our thinking of responsible innovation. Here, a first look at informative websites and newsletters on nanotechnologies, societal impact and decision making. - More
by Redazione FGB, 7 April 2008 Permalink
See also: interviews with Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute on Nanotechnology and with Lawrence Gasman, cofounder of NanoMarkets (by Jeff Ubois)
Categories Nanotechnology, Responsibility and Science
Responsibility in Innovation: A Survey of Coming Attractions in Nanotechnology
A Conversation with Lawrence Gasman Lawrence Gasman is the cofounder of NanoMarkets, LLC and author of the recent book, Nanotechnology Applications and Markets, which examines the market for nanotechnology in the healthcare, energy, and information technology sectors, and provides a generalized approach to forecasting the impact of nanotechnology on particular companies and industries. In this interview, Gasman emphasizes several likely near term discontinuities based on nanotechnology. And he offers some insight into possible social effects, and the limits of regulation. And yet without an ability to forecast developments, what kind of responsibility is possible? - More
by Jeff Ubois, 22 March 2007 Permalink
See also: Nanotechnology
Categories Interview, Nanotechnology
Bio- & Nano-Technology: who should decide and who will pay?
The convergence of biology, computing and robotics is the kernel of the recent progresses that applications from biotechnology to nanotechnology have produced in relation to their perceived opportunities, risks and... - More
by Redazione FGB, 12 November 2004 Permalink

Categories Nanotechnology