An upcoming edition of Nanotechnology, Law & Business will focus on social, legal, and humanistic research on nanotechnology in the private sector. Submissions may include, but are not limited to, treatments of:
• Innovation, publication, and patent analysis;
• Opinion polls of private sector actors;
• Discussion of and research on workforce issues;
• Contemporary legal frameworks concerning EHS and IP;
• How ethical, legal and societal implications of nanotechnology are dealt with in the private sector;
• Studies of responsible innovation;
• The constitution of emergent corporate self-regulation;
• CSR and nanotechnology;
• Meta-industries: consultancy, legal services, and PR in nano-business.
Submit papers to Noela Invernizzi (noela@ufpr.br) by 30th April 2012. Articles should be no longer than 8,000 words in length, including references, and should use the Chicago footnotes style of referencing.
Please address any queries to the editors at noela@ufpr.br or sarah.davies@asu.edu.
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