Emerging technologies create challenges for traditional regulatory approaches. The contributors to this book – leading scholars in law, innovation, and technology – address the need for new governance methods and models. The unique characteristics of emerging technologies – their diverse applications, the myriad concerns raised by new technologies, the need for public engagement, and the issue of effective coordination between governance players – create the need for new governance approaches. The authors identify innovative new methods of governance, taking into account an environment where changes in technologies can out-pace the corresponding regulatory frameworks. Scholars of technology, science and innovation will find this book to be an enlightening read, as will lawyers, policymakers and think-tanks working within the emerging technologies arena.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Introduction: the challenges of oversight for emerging technologies; 2. The dynamics of emerging technology systems; 3 Emerging technology governance; 4. An integrated framework for governing emerging technologies such as nanotechnology and synthetic biology; 5. The role of adaptation in the governance of emerging technologies; 6. Integrating technology assessment into government technology policy; 7. Governing the governance of emerging technologies; 8. The hare and the tortoise: an Australian perspective on regulating new technologies and their products and processes; 9. Properly paced? examining the past and present governance of GMOs in the United States; 10. Innovative governance schemes for molecular diagnostics; 11. Network security agreements: communications technology governance by other means; 12. Robust offshore risk regulation - an assessment of US, UK and Norwegian approaches; 13. Conclusion: emerging governance for emergent technologies. Index