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Nanotechnologies: risk study initiatives

The following excerpts are taken from the article: Nanotechnology: Looking As We Leap, di Ernie Hood pubblicato in Environmental Health Perspectives (the peer-reviewed journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences), Settembre 2004. ‘To ensure that nanotechnology flourishes responsibly and with strong public support, Kulinowski [NbE: Kristen Kulinowski, executive director for education and policy ... Nanotechnologies: risk study initiatives

Latest updates in the blog ‘Innovation, Risk and Governance’

I have posted the last of a triad of ‘guideline’ entries for readers and potential contributors in my blog ‘Innovation, Risk & Governance‘. The first post on ‘Conceptualising Innovation: A theoretical and practical agenda‘ delineates the theoretical guidelines, perceived as being also of interest to practitioners, about Innovation, which is understood as social and economic ... Latest updates in the blog ‘Innovation, Risk and Governance’

How we came to be speaking about Nanotechnology

I have been meaning for some time now to take another look at the comments made by Bill Joy [1], which caused a real media uproar in 2000 [2]. The article he wrote at that time for Wired, the top magazine for futurologists, could not be taken as merely the nth science fiction broadside on ... How we came to be speaking about Nanotechnology

Training means working alongside researchers

(Leggi in Italiano) (from: Witnesses to innovation, “@tilab“, year III, no. 7, October/November 2003) "The Italian model has run its course". The alarm launched in the "Affari e Finanza" section of daily newspaper Repubblica by Gian Maria Gros Pietro, the Chairman of Autostrade and a lecturer in Management Economics at the University of Turin, could ... Training means working alongside researchers

A conversation with Roberto Panzarani

(In Italiano) Roberto Panzarani teaches "Innovation Processes in Organisations" at the Psychology Faculty of La Sapienza University in Rome and has worked in the training sector in Italy for many years. He was head of training at Alitalia, where he founded the Alitalia Business School. Other positions he has covered include Chairman of the AIF ... A conversation with Roberto Panzarani

Fiorella Operto

Dr. Operto, scholar of Philosophy of Science, and of Science Ethics. She has acquired a specific experience in science dissemination and popularization. She contributed to the birth of the scientific book series “I Dialoghi“, Di Renzo Publishing House. She has co-operated with the Italian National Research Council in promoting the knowledge and understanding of robotics. ... Fiorella Operto

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Brian Wynne

Brian Wynne is professor of science studies and Associate Director of the ESRC-funded Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, at Lancaster University. With a first-class degree and PhD in materials science from Cambridge University and a later M.Phil in sociology of science from Edinburgh University, he has researched and published on sociology of ... Brian Wynne

Sustainable Medicine: Two Models of Health Care

Lecture at Università Cattolica in Milan, organised by the Giannino Bassetti Foundation – 21 February 2005 Nothing is so common these days, and actually for many years now, than talk of the need for health care reform. There is hardly a country in the world where one can not find such a discussion, and often ... Sustainable Medicine: Two Models of Health Care

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Cristina Grasseni

(Update January 2013) Cristina Grasseni, M.Phil., Ph.D., Scientific Director of the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti (2006-2011), was trained in Philosophy, History of Science and Social Anthropology with Visual Media at the Universities of Pavia, Cambridge and Manchester. Radcliffe Fellow (2011/12), Film Study Center Fellow (2011/12) and Visiting Scholar (2012/14) at Harvard University, she is a full time ... Cristina Grasseni

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