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SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 268-291Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1075547005281531
Keywords
nanotechnology; governance; upstream public engagement; imaginaries
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In this article we argue that nanotechnology represents an extraordinary opportunity to build in a robust role for the social sciences in a technology that remains at an early, and hence undetermined, stage of development. We examine policy dynamics in both the United States and United Kingdom aimed at both opening up, and closing down, the role of the social sciences in nanotechnologies. We then set out a prospective agenda for the social sciences and its potential in the future shaping of nanotechnology research and innovation processes. The emergent, undetermined nature of nanotechnologies calls for an open, experimental, and interdisciplinary model of social science research.
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