The human centred approach to bionanotechnology - ethical considerations

• Author(s): Costa, Gonçalo Jorge Morais da ; Silva, Nuno Sotero Alves da ; Silva, Nuno Miguel Araújo da
• Date: 2008
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/11144/376
• Origin: Camões - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Ethics; biotechnology; nanotechnology; human-centred approach
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The primary challenge to promulgating a more human-centred approach to managing and accounting for innovation is: can we encourage innovation that adds net social value? At the same time, can we deter - or at least not encourage - innovation that serves malicious ends, or that poses grave threats to humanity? Therefore, the aim of this paper is to obtain answers concerning bionanotechnology as a research field, but which are their applications? What sort of ethical and moral dilemmas encompasses? And, does the level of such dilemmas is a sum of biotechnology and nanotechnology, or imposes new challenges?