CNS Seminar (in-house)

Friday, December 7, 2012
2:00-4:00pm
Girvetz 2320
Speaker: 
Philip Shapira and Jan Youtie

Phillip Shapira is a Professor of Policy, Innovation and Management at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School; and Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of of Technology. He is an investigator with the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University.

Jan Youtie is Director of Policy Research Services and principal research associate at the Enterprise Innovation Institute at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is adjunct professor at the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology and a Principle Investigator with the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University.

The question of whether there is a paradox between nanotechnology's promise and realization will be disaggregated and explored in this presentation. Evidence will be drawn from work undertaken by Shapira, Youtie and their colleagues at Georgia Tech in tracking nanotechnology research and commercialization as part of the Research and Innovation Systems Assessment group of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University. This includes the large-scale analysis of global publications, patents and corporate entry in nanotechnology and assessments of the pace of transition and processes of adoption for next generation nanotechnology materials and systems. Implications from this research will be drawn for the anticipatory management and governance of future rounds of nanotechnology policy, investment and application.