The new OECD report on science, technology and industry is out. While the full report is only for sale, the website provides a considerable body of information. 'Until recently, the global context for innovation activities has been favourable. OECD investment in R&D climbed to USD 818 billion in 2006, up from USD 468 billion in 1996. Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) grew by 4.6% annually (in real terms) between 1996 and 2001, but growth slowed to less than 2.5% a year between 2001 and 2 more...

This workshop report describes nanotechnology research performed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the intention of producing greener technologies and reducing environmental impacts.

The resources on this website encompass a range of issues, including authorship, use of research animals, peer review, data sharing and collaboration, protection of human subjects, conflict of interest, and responsible conduct education. The resources have been divided into seven sections: A) Upcoming Events; B) Recent Literature; C) AAAS and National Academies Resources; D) Web and Media Resources; E) Policies, Codes, and Guidelines; F) Past Conferences; and G) International Resources with eac more...

Innovation is fed by research. Poor exploitation of research results is a European weakness which holds back the innovation process. In an attempt to remedy this, the European Union’s Fifth Research Framework Programme specified, for the first time, that a Technological Implementation Plan (TIP) should be delivered as a part of the final report of all research contracts. It was an effort to support the spirit of entrepreneurship and to sensitize European scientists towards intellectual propert more...

The European Commission adopted the Action Plan 'Nanosciences and nanotechnologies: An action plan for Europe 2005-2009'. This Action Plan defines a series of articulated and interconnected actions for the immediate implementation of a safe, integrated and responsible strategy for nanosciences and nanotechnologies, based on the priority areas identified in the above-mentioned Communication. Full paper in PDF format: P 1 to 16.

This paper is European Union Commission Recommendation on the Code of Conduct, aiming to promote integrated, safe and responsible nanosciences and nanotechnologies research in Europe for the benefit of society as a whole. Full document in PDF format, P: 1 to 10.

This Wiki, started in 2005, seeks to provide broad information on the field of science and technology studies through the contributions of a self selected community of scholarly contributors. it is managed by Bryan Pfaffenberger, an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia. STS is an interdisciplinary research area concerned with:* how social, political, and cultural values affect scientific research and technological innovation; and more...

‘Researchers at Stanford University have succeeded in functionalising carbon nanotubes to carry anti-cancer drugs to tumours while avoiding damage to healthy tissues. The research, led by Professor Hongjie Dai, takes advantage of the so-called 'leaky vasculature' of tumour blood vessels. Carbon nanotubes of dimensions of about 100 nm in length and several nm in diameter can pass through these leaky vessels but not through the tight cell junctions of normal blood vessels’.

‘This journal report on a photon detector aimed at low light detection, which is based on the combination of small sensing volumes and large absorbing regions. Fabricated devices show stable gain values in the range of 1000–10 000 at bias voltages of _1 V at 1.55 _m at room temperature. Submicron devices show dark current less than 90 nA and unity gain dark current density values less than 900 nA/cm2. The noise equivalent power _NEP_ is measured to be 4 fW/Hz0.5 at room temperature without a more...

‘Fabrication of a large area of periodic structures with deep sub-wavelength features is required in many applications such as solar cells, photonic crystals, and artificial kidneys. We present a low-cost and high throughput process for realization of 2D arrays of deep
sub-wavelength features using a self-assembled monolayer of hexagonally close packed (HCP) silica and polystyrene microspheres. This method utilizes the microspheres as super-lenses to fabricate nanohole and pillar arrays over more...