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• W1543313791 abstract "In this dissertation I explore nanotechnology’s foreseen implications for the global South by asking:to what extent does nanotechnology offer hope for a more equitable world? Overall, I find thatnanotechnology presently offers little hope, based on its failure to demonstrate a reflexive responseto the legitimate requirements of equitable development.My original contribution to knowledge is in placing nanotechnology’s emergence within a broadhistorical and contemporary global context whilst developing and testing an interpretive frameworkthrough which to assess relevant claims. Furthermore, I establish greater clarity about the nature ofglobal engagement with nanotechnology research and development and explore a range ofperspectives, from within both the South and North, regarding nanotechnology’s foreseenimplications for global inequity.Through a review of the secondary literature I identify four key themes around which to questionnanotechnology’s implications for a more equitable world, namely: understandings, innovativecapacity, technological appropriateness and approaches to technological governance. To considernanotechnology in relation to these themes, I use an exploratory mixed methods approach,consisting of two sequential phases. In order to establish the ‘state of play’, I first assessquantitative data surrounding national engagement, research participation and nanotechnologypatenting. To explore matters more deeply, in the second, largely qualitative phase, I analyse theperspectives of 31 Thai and Australian ‘key informants’, supported by surveys of 24 Thainanotechnology practitioners.Through my research I find that there is agreement about nanotechnology’s common characteristicsbut that, simultaneously, there are substantially different ways in which it is conceptualised. Theresult is a large variation in opinion surrounding various issues such as the expected entry costs andinfrastructural requirements of nanotechnology research and development. Whilst there is evidenceof widespread engagement and feasible entry points for some Southern countries into the buddingfields of research and development, innovative capacity is shown to be increasingly centralised anddisengaged from ‘the local’, although the emerging gaps are as much South-South as North-South.In terms of appropriateness, nanotechnologies are seen as offering numerous technical advantages,but any associated benefits are set against numerous imponderables relating to risks andimplications, as well as economic imperatives that can mean nanotechnologies are oriented awayfrom Southern needs. In terms of governance, Southern approaches are found to largely focus onsupporting innovation and managing risk at the expense of meaningful public engagement.Overall, an increasing concentration of capacity and influence, simplistic hype that obfuscates keycriteria of appropriateness and a largely ‘managed’ process of public engagement withpredetermined desirable outcomes suggest that…" @default.
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• W1543313791 title "Nanotechnology and the hope for a more equitable world : a mixed methods study" @default.
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