Intellectual and Laboratory Dynamics of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

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Intellectual and Laboratory Dynamics of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Sociological, Anthropological and Philosophical Investigations

27 –

28 April 2007

Maison Suger – 16/18 rue Suger - 75006 Paris

Organizers: Terry Shinn, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Dominique Vinck

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Friday 27 April

9:30

      Opening : The analytic focus (Terry Shinn, CNRS, Paris)

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I.   Methodological Innovation and Perspectives

      Session chair : Bernadette BENSAUDE-VINCENT

9:45

     What do we know about Innovation in Nanotechnology?

      Some Propositions about an Emerging Field between Hype and Path-Dependency

      Martin MEYER : Senior Researcher, SPRU

10:30

     Nanotechnology as a Field of Science : Its Delineation in Terms of Journals and Patents

      Loet LEYDESDORFF : Senior Researcher,

University

of

Amsterdam

11:15

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11:45

: break

11:45

     Reconstructing Trajectories : From Fullerenes to Nanotubes

Diana LUCIO-ARIAS : Post doctoral fellow, Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)

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II.  Positioning Nanoscience and Nanotechnology :

     Sociological and Epistemological Investigations

      Session chair : Thomas HEINZE

14:00

     The Impact of Nanotechnology on the Disciplinary Map of Academic Knowledge

Bernadette BENSAUDE-VINCENT : Professor Philosophy of Science, University of

Paris

-X

Nanterre

14:45

     Intellectual Structure and Hierarchies of NST Research Practice :

      Reasoning, Technology and the Production of Social Representations

      Terry SHINN and Erwan LAMY : GEMAS, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris

15:30

     Mapping Knowledge Integration in Research Specialties of a Nanobiotechnology

      Ismael RAFOLS : Research Fellow, SPRU

16:15 – 16:45

: break

16:45

     The Technological Construction of Knowledge in Nanosciences

Sacha LOEVE and Xavier GUCHET : doctoral fellow and post-doctoral fellow, University Paris-X Nanterre

17:30

     Simulation, Representation and Cartography : Compiling a Virtual Atlas of NanoSpace

Johannes LENHARD : Institut für Wissenschafts-und Technikforschung (IWT), Universität Bielefeld

Saturday 28 April

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III. Toward an Anthropology of NST Laboratory Dynamics

      Session chair : Loet LEYDESDORFF

9:30

     The Passage to Nano : Strategic Conversion and Laboratory Change in the Field

      of the Microsystems

      Dominique VINCK : Professor Sociology of Science, University of

Grenoble

10:15

     Co-Constructing Laboratory and NST

      Martina MERZ : Professor, University of Luzern

11:00 – 11:30

: break

11:30

     Work Dynamics in a

Grenoble

Nanosciences

Center

      Morgan JOUVENET : Post-doctoral fellow,

University

of

Grenoble

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IV. Policy, Organization and NST Laboratory Realities

      Session chair : Dominique VINCK

14:00

     Institutional Conditions for Creative Research. Evidence for Nano S&T

      Thomas HEINZE : Researcher,

School

of

Management

and Governance,

University

of

Twente

14:45

     Crazy for Roadmaps : Policymakers' Attempts to Shape Scientific Practice

      (in Nanotechnology)

      Ann JOHNSON : Professor,

University

of

South Carolina

15:30

     Research Centers as a Policy Tool in the

US

National Nanotechnology Initiative :

      An Assessment of their Role in the

US

System of Innovation

      Juan ROGERS : Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

16:15

      Closing discussion (Terry Shinn)