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SPRING 2007 WORKSHOP: Nanotechnology and Society: The Organization and Policy of Innovation

Date: Thursday, May 17, 2007, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m
Location: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Campus Center Room 163C
Host: The Nanoscience and Society Research Group of the Science, Technology and Society Initiative of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UMass Amherst

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Presentation Videos

Paul Kostecki, Workshop Welcome
Howard Gadlin, Re-thinking scientific teams: competition, conflict and collaboration
Jay P. Kesan, Nanotechnology Innovation--Two Aspects
Geoff Cooper, Investment and interpretation: nanotechnology, financial journalism and practical epistemology
Susanna Hornig Priest, Predicting the Future: How Ordinary People Make Sense of Emerging Nanotechnologies
Otávio Bueno, Perceiving Nanoscale Phenomena: Interpreting and Disseminating Nanoscale Images
John Armstrong
Daniel Lee Kleinman, The Culture of the American University in the Age of Neoliberalism
David Rejeski, Why Managing Research is Not Managing Science

Session 1 Q&A
Session 2 Q&A
Session 4 Q&A

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Presentation Slides

Howard Gadlin, Re-thinking scientific teams: competition, conflict and collaboration
Jay P. Kesan, Nanotechnology Innovation--Two Aspects
Geoff Cooper, Investment and interpretation: nanotechnology, financial journalism and practical epistemology
Susanna Hornig Priest, Predicting the Future: How Ordinary People Make Sense of Emerging Nanotechnologies
Otávio Bueno, Perceiving Nanoscale Phenomena: Interpreting and Disseminating Nanoscale Images
David Rejeski, Why Managing Research is Not Managing Science

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Podcast - Nanotechnology: Wave of the Future?
A podcast produced by the Advanced Issues in Information Technology class (Communication 497T) at UMass Amherst
To listen to this podcast, please click here.
For information on how to access this podcast in Mozilla Firefox, please click here (PDF).

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Workshop Schedule

8:00 - 8:30 Registration
8:30 - 8:45 Jane Fountain
8:45 - 9:00 Paul Kostecki, Vice Provost for Research at UMass Amherst
To watch the video, please click here.
9:00 - 10:30 Technology Innovation and Dispute Resolution
  • Howard Gadlin, Ombudsman, National Institutes of Health Office of the Ombudsman, Center for Cooperative Resolution
    Re-thinking scientific teams: competition, conflict and collaboration
    To watch the video, please click here.
    View the slides from this presentation here.
    View the handout from the presentation here.
  • Jay P. Kesan, Professor and Director, Program in Intellectual Property & Technology Law, University of Illinois College of Law
    Nanotechnology Innovation--Two Aspects
    To watch the video, please click here.
    View the slides from this presentation here.
  • Moderator: Ethan Katsh, Director of the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution at UMass Amherst
To watch a video of the session 1 Q&A, please click here.
10:30 - 10:45 Break
  • Podcast - Nanotechnology: Wave of the Future?
    A podcast produced by the Advanced Issues in Information Technology class (Communication 497T) at UMass Amherst
    To listen to this podcast, please click here.
    For information on how to access this podcast in Mozilla Firefox, please click here (PDF).
10:45 - 12:15 Forming Public Opinion and Informing Public Policy on Emergent Technologies: the Role of the Media
To watch a video of the session 2 Q&A, please click here.
12:30 - 2:00 Welcome and Introduction: Janet Rifkin, Dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, UMass Amherst
Featured Luncheon Speaker (available to workshop registrants only)
Visual Perception of Nanoscale Phenomena
2:00 - 4:00 Organization and Economics of the Nanotechnology Research and Development Enterprise
  • John Armstrong, Vice President, UMass Amherst Foundation, UMass Amherst
    Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing External Advisory Board, former Vice President for science and technology and IBM Director of research
    To watch the video, please click here.
  • Daniel Lee Kleinman, Professor, University of Wisconsin, Department of Rural Sociology
    The Culture of the American University in the Age of Neoliberalism
    To watch the video, please click here.
  • David Rejeski, Director of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies and the Foresight and Governance Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
    Why Managing Research is Not Managing Science
    To watch the video, please click here.
    View the slides from this presentation here.
  • Moderator: Jane Fountain, Director, Science, Technology and Society Initiative, University of Massachusetts Amherst
To watch a video of the session 4 Q&A, please click here.

For additional information contact Karen Pelto (kpelto@pubpol.umass.edu).

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