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

Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 24 (1):34-39 (2004)
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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.

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