Transnational Models for Regulation of Nanotechnology

@article{Marchant2006TransnationalMF,
  title={Transnational Models for Regulation of Nanotechnology},
  author={Gary E. Marchant and Douglas J. Sylvester},
  journal={The Journal of Law, Medicine \& Ethics},
  year={2006},
  volume={34},
  pages={714 - 725}
}
There is much we do not know about nanotechnology. Despite its tremendous promise, nanotechnology today is mostly forecast and fervent hope. Predictions that spending on nanotechnology will increase from current levels of $13 billion to more than $1 trillion by 2015 are no more than that – simply predictions. Hopes that nanotechnology will be an essential part of solving the globe's energy, food, and water problems should be tempered by recalling a century of revolutionary technologies that… 
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