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How we came to be speaking about Nanotechnology

I have been meaning for some time now to take another look at the comments made by Bill Joy [1], which caused a real media uproar in 2000 [2]. The article he wrote at that time for Wired, the top magazine for futurologists, could not be taken as merely the nth science fiction broadside on ... How we came to be speaking about Nanotechnology

Training means working alongside researchers

(Leggi in Italiano) (from: Witnesses to innovation, “@tilab“, year III, no. 7, October/November 2003) "The Italian model has run its course". The alarm launched in the "Affari e Finanza" section of daily newspaper Repubblica by Gian Maria Gros Pietro, the Chairman of Autostrade and a lecturer in Management Economics at the University of Turin, could ... Training means working alongside researchers

A conversation with Roberto Panzarani

(In Italiano) Roberto Panzarani teaches "Innovation Processes in Organisations" at the Psychology Faculty of La Sapienza University in Rome and has worked in the training sector in Italy for many years. He was head of training at Alitalia, where he founded the Alitalia Business School. Other positions he has covered include Chairman of the AIF ... A conversation with Roberto Panzarani

Fiorella Operto

Dr. Operto, scholar of Philosophy of Science, and of Science Ethics. She has acquired a specific experience in science dissemination and popularization. She contributed to the birth of the scientific book series “I Dialoghi“, Di Renzo Publishing House. She has co-operated with the Italian National Research Council in promoting the knowledge and understanding of robotics. ... Fiorella Operto

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Brian Wynne

Brian Wynne is professor of science studies and Associate Director of the ESRC-funded Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, at Lancaster University. With a first-class degree and PhD in materials science from Cambridge University and a later M.Phil in sociology of science from Edinburgh University, he has researched and published on sociology of ... Brian Wynne

Sustainable Medicine: Two Models of Health Care

Lecture at Università Cattolica in Milan, organised by the Giannino Bassetti Foundation – 21 February 2005 Nothing is so common these days, and actually for many years now, than talk of the need for health care reform. There is hardly a country in the world where one can not find such a discussion, and often ... Sustainable Medicine: Two Models of Health Care

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Cristina Grasseni

(Update January 2013) Cristina Grasseni, M.Phil., Ph.D., Scientific Director of the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti (2006-2011), was trained in Philosophy, History of Science and Social Anthropology with Visual Media at the Universities of Pavia, Cambridge and Manchester. Radcliffe Fellow (2011/12), Film Study Center Fellow (2011/12) and Visiting Scholar (2012/14) at Harvard University, she is a full time ... Cristina Grasseni

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Sophie Houdart

Sophie Houdart is researching on the various ways modernity is being built and enacted as a cultural construct in Japan. She decided to specify this very broad topics by studying a scientific laboratory there. In her Ph. D. she tried to give a new insight of the links between technical procedures and social processes through ... Sophie Houdart

On the uneven evolution of human know-how

This is the text behind the lecture of 18 June 2002 in Milan; it will be published in “Research Policy” [July 1, 2002] I. INTRODUCTION Economists long have recognized the advance of human know-how as the central driving force behind the remarkable increases in living standards that have been achieved over the past two centuries. ... On the uneven evolution of human know-how

Julia Cobb

Born 1976, Harrogate, England Nationality – British Speaks and writes French, Spanish and Italian. 1976 – 1980 Resident, Gabon, Francophone Africa (also 1987 – 1990). 1981 – 1985 Resident, Peru, South America. 1985 – 1994 Roedean School, Brighton, England. 1998 Exeter University, 2:1 BA Combined Honours in Modern Languages. 1997 Academic year at Université de ... Julia Cobb

Business Ethics. Some Principles and Orientations

Ethics is becoming business, in both senses of the term. Ethics is good for business—it is “becoming for” business. And ethics already “is” business—soon big business. In the late 70s and 80s the dominant trend was the green wave. In the year 2000 and beyond it will be the ethical leadership wave. Why? Very likely ... Business Ethics. Some Principles and Orientations

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