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The Context for Science and Technology Regulation

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This book sets out to explore and comment on the complexity of the regulatory processes governing the production, ownership and exploitation of science and technology. The chapters are mainly updated versions of papers presented at a seminar held in March 1996 organised by the Regulatory Policy Research Centre, Hertford College as one of the Regulatory Policy Seminar series funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (award no. R45126440395), and supported by Coventry Business School, where it was held. Two additional chapters (by David Charles and Henry Rothstein and Alan Irwin) have been included. The purpose of the seminar was to bring together a range of perspectives on the ways in which science and technology is regulated and brought together academics, policy makers, industrialists, and representatives from pressure groups. The key theme was the inseparability of the political-regulatory climate, the kind of science and technology research conducted in universities and in industry, the way that research is utilised by industry, and the intent to which it is used by actors within the regulatory system to support particular positions.

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  1. Centre for Local Economic Development, Coventry Business School, Coventry University, UK

    Helen Lawton Smith (Reader in Local Economic Development, Research Director) (Reader in Local Economic Development, Research Director)

  2. Oxfordshire Economic Observatory, School of Geography and the Environment Oxford University, UK

    Helen Lawton Smith (Reader in Local Economic Development, Research Director) (Reader in Local Economic Development, Research Director)

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Smith, H.L. (2002). The Context for Science and Technology Regulation. In: Smith, H.L. (eds) The Regulation of Science and Technology. Studies in Regulation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554528_1

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