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Research

Research

Summary

This project will analyze and explore the potential for transnational coordination and harmonization of regulatory and other oversight mechanisms for nanotechnology, focusing specifically on nanotechnology applications relating to bioenergy. The specific goals are to: (1) create and maintain a publicly available online database of proposed and enacted regulatory requirements and programs specific to nanotechnology at the international, national, and sub-national levels; (2) analyze proposed and enacted national and sub-national regulations for nanotechnology, including the consistency (or lack thereof) of regulatory requirements in different jurisdictions, using nanotechnology-related applications of bioenergy as the regulatory focus; and (3) prepare case studies of nine different transnational precedents or models for the regulation or oversight of various technologies, including an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, and lessons of each model.

Personnel

Funding

U.S. Department of Energy

Timeline

September 2007 — August 2012