Nanotechnologies for Tomorrow's Society: A Case for Reflective Action Research in Flanders, Belgium
Nanotechnologies for Tomorrow's Society: A Case for Reflective Action Research in Flanders, Belgium
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10.1007/978-1-4020-8416-4_14
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2008-01-01
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Deblonde, Marian
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Goorden, Lieve;van Oudheusden, Michiel;Deblonde, Marian
参与创新政策的政策制定者和从事纳米技术等新兴技术工作的科学家面临着三个相当大的挑战：缺乏可能应用的明确指示方向(战略不确定性)，缺乏科学知识(复杂性)，以及对社会新发展的模糊接受。在这种不确定和模棱两可的气氛中，有关行为者如何有目的和建设性地进行创新，一点也不清楚。从这种研究和开发的快速演变和巨大不确定性的后现代视角来看，科学和技术的推动者不得不放弃预测一个或可能的未来是可能的，因为只有一条道路不可避免地通向那个未来。考虑到我们必须设想未来是不确定的，即使是要探索几条我们可以以某种方式从中选择最可取的道路的想法也必须被抛弃(Dupuy 2004)。这些情景是从2015年一名研究纳米技术现状的研究人员的角度撰写的，指出了关键问题是什么，以及导致这一点的途径。从这个角度来看，这不再是预测或选择未来的问题，而是集体建设和塑造未来的问题。为了应对这一新现实及其动态所带来的挑战，佛兰德跨学科研究项目“未来社会的纳米技术”(NanoSoc)参与了创新网络，每个参与者都提出了他/她(不完整)的观点和观点，并与其他人的观点和观点对峙。该项目将比利时佛兰德斯地区的纳米技术学家、自然和社会科学家、利益相关者以及公民聚集在一起，讨论并指导纳米技术开发的三个特定领域的未来纳米技术发展：智能环境、芯片上的生物和新材料。本文首先讨论了利用纳米技术成功创新的主要挑战，然后阐述了NanoSoc如何通过跨学科的反思行动研究来有效地解决这些问题。
Policy makers involved in innovation policy and scientists working on newly emerging technologies such as nanotechnologies, are confronted with three considerable challenges: a lack of distinct indicating directions of possible applications (strategic uncertainty), a lack of scientific knowledge (complexity), and the ambiguous reception of new developments in society. In this climate of uncertainty and ambiguity it is by no means clear for the actors involved how to innovate purposefully and constructively. From this post-modern perspective of swift evolutions and massive uncertainties in research and development, promoters of science and technology have had to give up the idea that predicting one or the probable future is possible because only one path inevitably leads to that future. Even the idea that several plausible paths are to be explored out of which we can somehow choose the most desirable, must be abandoned, given the assumption that we have to conceive the future as indeterminate (Dupuy 2004). Written from the perspective of a researcher in 2015 examining the current state of nanotechnology, the scenarios point out what the key concerns are and the pathway that led to that point. In that perspective, it is not any longer a matter of predicting or choosing a future, but rather of collectively building and shaping one. In response to this new reality and the challenges that arise from its dynamic, the Flemish interdisciplinary research project “Nanotechnologies for Tomorrow’s Society”(NanoSoc) engages innovation networks where each actor contributes his/her (incomplete) views and perspectives and confronts them with those of others. The project brings together nanotechnologists, natural and social scientists, stakeholders, and citizens in the region of Flanders, Belgium, to discuss and steer future nanotech developments in three particular fields of nanotechnology development: smart environment, bio on chip, and new materials. This article first discusses the main challenges in innovating successfully with nanotechnologies and then elaborates on how NanoSoc seeks to effectively address these issues through interdisciplinary reflective action research.