Slowing the nanoscale revolution? Questions about government regulatory capacity

摘要

The National Nanotechnology Initiative has committed substantial funding to nanoscale research and development across a wide array of potential applications. These efforts are expected to bear fruit fairly soon, yet the path from the development to widespread production and use is strewn with a number of potentially considerable legal, regulatory, and societal obstacles. This paper examines several aspects of one of these issues: government capacity.