Overview
- Examines how nanotechnology risks are being addressed by scientists and how these risks can be measured in financial terms
- Provides an overview of nanotechnology risk measurement and risk transfer
- Explores ways in which insurance can impact nanotechnology regulation
- Examines legal issues in nanotechnology, both current and future outcomes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management (ITKM)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Regulatory, Social and Legal Challenges
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Front Matter
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Risk Assessment and Management
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About this book
This book aims to address how nanotechnology risks are being addressed by scientists, particularly in the areas of human health and the environment and how these risks can be measured in financial terms for insurers and regulators. It provides a comprehensive overview of nanotechnology risk measurement and risk transfer methods, including a chapter outlining how Bayesian methods can be used. It also examines nanotechnology from a legal perspective, both current and potential future outcomes.
The global market for nanotechnology products was valued at $22.9 billion in 2013 and increased to about $26 billion in 2014. This market is expected to reach about $64.2 billion by 2019, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.8% from 2014 to 2019. Despite the increasing value of nanotechnologies and their widespread use, there is a significant gap between the enthusiasm of scientists and nanotechnology entrepreneurs working in the nanotechnology space and theinsurance/regulatory sector. Scientists are scarcely aware that insurers/regulators have concerns about the potential for human and environmental risk and insurers/regulators are not in a position to access the potential risk. This book aims to bridge this gap by defining the current challenges in nanotechnology across disciplines and providing a number of risk management and assessment methodologies.
Featuring contributions from authors in areas such as regulation, law, ethics, management, insurance and manufacturing, this volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective that is of value to students, academics, researchers, policy makers, practitioners and society in general.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing Risk in Nanotechnology
Book Subtitle: Topics in Governance, Assurance and Transfer
Editors: Finbarr Murphy, Eamonn M. McAlea, Martin Mullins
Series Title: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32392-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32390-9Published: 22 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81274-8Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32392-3Published: 10 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2197-5698
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 240
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, R & D/Technology Policy, Nanotechnology, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk