NIRT: Nanotechnology in the Public Interest: Regulatory Challenges, Capacity, and Policy Recommendations

NIRT：公共利益中的纳米技术：监管挑战、能力和政策建议

• 批准号: 0609078
• 负责人: Christopher Bosso
• 金额: $ 140万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0609078&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NIRT; Nanotechnology; Public; Interest; Regulatory

This Nanostructure Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) award is in response to the Active Nanostructure and Nanosytems (ANN) solicitation (NSF 05-610) and the theme of Societal and Educational Issues Associated with Long-Term Nanoscale Science and Engineering Advances. This project evaluates existing federal and state government regulatory capacity--defined here as sufficiency in scientific expertise, legal authority, organizational design, and relevant regulatory frameworks--to address the societal and policy challenges posed by emerging nanoscale innovations and products, and, where appropriate, make recommendations for building requisite capacity to address these challenges. The project assesses current state and federal regulatory capacity and identifies what is required to build capacity where it is not already sufficient to address the novel and crosscutting challenges of nanotechnology. The project's focus is on two crosscutting applications derived from the NNI Strategic Plan (2004)--environmental improvement, and medicine and health--but lessons obtained apply more generally. Overall, effective regulatory institutions, in the form of organizations, expertise, and frameworks, can serve to promote the advancement of nanotechnology research and development, promote smooth and timely commercialization of products containing nanoscale technologies, protect the public from possible negative effects of nanotechnology and the nanotech revolution, and, in the process, be responsive to public concerns regarding nanotechnology and the nanotech revolution. Additional attention is paid to assessing and developing requisite capacity in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a state currently at the forefront of nanotechnology research and development with requisite expectations about the centrality of nanotechnology to its future economic health. Education and outreach efforts address the concomitant need to build capacity among current and future policymakers, particularly administrative professionals in relevant federal, state, and local agencies and offices, as well as journalists who cover nanotechnology related issues. The NNI expects the workforce of the 21st century to have specialized training in nanoscale materials and processes; this must include policymakers and journalists.

这个纳米结构跨学科研究团队（NIRT）奖是为了响应主动纳米结构和纳米系统（ANN）征集（NSF 05-610）和与长期纳米科学和工程进展相关的社会和教育问题的主题。 该项目评估现有的联邦和州政府的监管能力-这里定义为科学专业知识，法律的权威，组织设计和相关的监管框架的充分性-以解决新兴的纳米创新和产品所带来的社会和政策挑战，并在适当的情况下，为建设必要的能力，以应对这些挑战提出建议。该项目评估目前的州和联邦监管能力，并确定需要什么来建立能力，它已经不足以解决纳米技术的新的和跨领域的挑战。该项目的重点是从NNI战略计划（2004年）衍生的两个跨领域应用----环境改善和医药与健康----但所获得的经验教训适用于更广泛的领域。总的来说，有效的监管机构，以组织、专门知识和框架的形式，可以促进纳米技术研究和开发的进步，促进含有纳米技术的产品顺利和及时的商业化，保护公众免受纳米技术和纳米技术革命可能产生的负面影响，并在这一过程中，回应公众对纳米技术和纳米技术革命的关注。额外的注意力是评估和发展所需的能力，在联邦的马萨诸塞州，一个国家目前在纳米技术的研究和发展的前沿与必要的期望的中心纳米技术，其未来的经济健康。教育和外联工作解决了当前和未来决策者，特别是相关联邦、州和地方机构和办公室的行政专业人员以及报道纳米技术相关问题的记者的能力建设需求。NNI预计21世纪的劳动力将接受纳米材料和工艺的专门培训;这必须包括政策制定者和记者。