Technoscience in Progress. Managing the Uncertainty of Nanotechnology

✍ Scribed by S. Arnaldi; A. Lorenzet; F. Russo

Publisher: IOS Press, Incorporated
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 160
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Nanotechnology seems to escape boundaries and definitions. This title adds to the collective effort of charting the multiple and heterogeneous dimensions that characterize nanotechnology, by analyzing the numerous modalities through which different stakeholders and actors provide definitions, attribute meaning and sense to nanoenabled innovations.

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