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标题：Governance and Nanotechnology Developments: A Focus on the Health Sector in India
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作者：Manish Anand ; Nidhi Srivastava ; Shilpanjali Deshpande Sarma 等
期刊名称：SCRIPT-ed
电子版ISSN：1744-2567
出版年度：2012
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：7-24
DOI：10.2966/scrip.090112.7
出版社：AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law
摘要：To harness the limitless opportunities of nanotechnology applications in the health sector, it would be imperative to develop nanotechnology in a responsible way. This paper focuses on applications of nanotechnology in health care and medicine in India, first describing the main research and developments therein and then analysing the policy issues. Although a specific nanotechnology regulation does not currently exist, there is a whole range of regulatory instruments that do and will extend to the nanotechnology applications in India. This paper discusses the regulatory adequacy and capacity of these instruments to address the concerns emanating from nanotechnology development in the health sector in India. The main challenges pertaining to nanotechnology regulation relate to regulatory capacity, information asymmetry, inter-agency coordination, and overlapping roles and mandates. Responsible governance of nanotechnology would entail the democratisation of the governance process by way of facilitating dialogue and learning across state and non-state actors and the industry needs to be an integral part of this