Nanotechnology looks like generating more paper than profits as yet another policy review gets under way.
That shadowy body the UK's Council for Science and Technology (CST), advisor to "the Prime Minister and the First Ministers of Scotland and Wales on strategic issues that cut across the responsibilities of individual government departments," is pulling up nanotechnology by the roots again.
The CTS says it is "reviewing progress on actions set out in the Government's response (335KB) to the Royal Society//Royal Academy of Engineering report "Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies: opportunities and uncertainties" (3511KB)".
We mention this here only so that people heed the call for evidence and take the opportunity to put their oar in. After all, if you plan to make money out of nanotechnology, do you want to leave it to the environmental lobbyists and science fiction writers to pile on unchallenged mountains of dubious scare stories?
The minutes of the CST's preliminary meeting are instructive. "It would be useful," the note says "to draw up a ‘scorecard’ of nanotechnologies, noting what – if any – the associated risks were, and how they were being tackled."
The deadline for submissions is Monday 2nd October. More details in a press release put out through the DTI.
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