by Andrew Maynard | May 16, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Technology Innovation
A few weeks ago, the US National Nanotechnology Initiative website – www.nano.gov – underwent a much-needed facelift. The NNI’s web portal was creaky when I was part of the Initiative several years ago now. And it’s somewhat ironic that the...
by Andrew Maynard | Mar 10, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Oversight, Policy, Technology Innovation
As anyone who has followed my work over the past few years will know, I have a deep interest in the potential benefits and risks associated with emerging technologies, and in particular whether we can swing the balance towards benefits by thinking more innovatively...
by Andrew Maynard | Mar 4, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Technology Innovation
Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational...
by Andrew Maynard | Feb 26, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Technology Innovation
The recently published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies has a rather unconventional cover image. But it’s one that I must confess I am rather pleased with. The image is a photo of a piece of Murano glass that I picked up several years ago...
by Andrew Maynard | Feb 19, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology
In one of the more bizarre yet less publicized proposed cuts in the 2012 Obama budget, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers are on the chopping block. Bizarre, because the move is directly counter to Obama’s...
by Andrew Maynard | Feb 9, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Recommended
Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog Several months ago, I was asked by a colleague if I fancied co-authoring a review on nanotoxicology for a copy of Toxicological Sciences celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society of Toxicology (coming out later this year)....
