regulation – TechConnect Briefs

A Regulator’s Approach to Nanomaterials

Takatori S., Wong J., California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA), US

Policymakers and regulators appear to have a mistaken belief that a singular overarching definition of “engineered nanomaterials” is a requirement for any possible regulatory strategy. Previous attempts, most recently by the European Commission, have shown [...]

A Comprehensive Regulatory Policy Analysis

Horne N., Goldman School of Public Policy, US

Nanotechnology faces three significant challenges. First, the industry faces economic challenges due to increasing risk uncertainty, inefficient commercialization, and environmental, health, and safety (EHS) externalities. Secondly, legal challenges stem from a legal framework that fails [...]

Public Policy and Cleantech – Obstacle or Asset?

Wardak A., Taneja V., University of Virginia, US

Alongside the development, commercialization, and entrance of clean technologies (i.e. cleantech) into mainstream North American markets, has been the North America investment community, which has made great strides to support cleantech innovations.

Impact of Government Biotechnology Regulations on Biofuel Development

Glass D.J., D. Glass Associates, Inc., US

Biofuels projects involving the use of advanced biotechnology strategies may be affected by government biotechnology regulation. Transgenic plants engineered to improve biofuels feedstocks may be regulated under the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s biotechnology regulations. Genetically [...]

Regulation of Nanotechnology in the Environment

Lehrenbaum W.U., Zarghamee R., Leopold Jr. C., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, US

In this paper we examine the current state and likely future path of nanotechnology regulation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or “the Agency”). We also explore a number of initiatives that have arisen [...]

Forensic Environmental Analysis of Nanotechnology Regulation

Scher C.A., Caputo D.L., Quest Consulting, Inc., US

Some considerable effort has recently been displayed by manufacturers, researchers, regulatory bodies, professional organizations, NGOs, and other interested parties addressing how nano-particles and their manufacture should be environmentally regulated. The term environment here is used [...]

Slowing the Nanoscale Revolution? Questions about Government Regulatory Capacity

Bosso C.J., Isaacs J., Kay W.D., Sandler R.L., Rodrigues R., Northeastern University, US

The National Nanotechnology Initiative has committed substantial funding to nanoscale research and development. These efforts will bear fruit fairly soon, yet the path to commercial production is strewn with a number of potentially considerable legal, [...]

A Principle of Regulating the Collective Effect of Assembling Patterns in a Moderate Number of Equivalent Finite Regular Arrays of Active Nanoelements due to Local Transferring Information by Pairs Hopping under Synchronous Excitation

Kozlowski W., Inst. Biocybernetics & Biomed.Eng. PAS, PL

One reports computational study that reveals a set of general requirements fulfilling of which would afford the opportunity for using changes in ambient conditions to regulate accomplishing the collective outcome (collective effect CE) of evolution [...]