The three legged table, or how to negotiate the rainbow
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nanotechnology, metaphor, research strategy, platforms of preoccupationAbstract
Created by the Government of the Canary Islands, the NANOMAC project is a venture into the area of nanotechnology through its R&D+I plan. Nanotechnology raises many scientific-technological and ethical-social questions from different platforms spanning the areas of government, insurers, health and occupational risks, as well as the environmentalist sector and civil society. The goal of this work is to identify research options in NANOMAC from those questions and the research capacity of the research groups participating in the structural project. The proposal is made from the position of technological dramaturge, which always reminds us that nothing is gained without loss. These platforms identify with forces that motivate technical change and can push the research in specific directions. The objective is to persuade those in charge of NANOMAC to take up the challenge posed by those forces, to identify with them and to push the research in the direction indicated by the different questions. Various metaphors provide an ideal way to perceive and confront the challenge from the methodology implemented by those in charge of NANOMAC for its consolidation.
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