States in the Role of Risk Governance
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Li, Yun-Ling
Abstract
The three countries of East Asia, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan, because of their context and the development were different from Europe, the United States and other Western countries, were classified as development-oriented countries. The main feature is the close cooperation between the public and private sectors and bureaucratic elite organizations, through different mechanisms to foster the development of domestic industries, making the Government’s decision to effective implementation. The Government has been playing an important role in the development of a country, but in the context of globalization and the free market concept, the role of government is gradually dissipated.States are now committed to the development of creative industries, such as: the biotechnology industry, GM project and nanotechnology industry. But the risk form the percendented case has proven that if unrestricted laissez-faire industries develop, it will pose a greater threat to human life. Therefore, the Government should still be left to a supervisory role, not only to foster the development of industries, but also should consider the generation and response of risk. To Taiwan, the Government is betting the high level of funding to assist the development of nanotechnology industry and applications, but we have not yet seen the Government’s constructive doings in risk control of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology itself is a high degree of uncertainty in science and technology, in addition to the development process control, the technology of the products should also be supervised.Nanotechnology industry will bring substantial business opportunities, but will also trigger unknown risks. The current evidence of the toxicity of nanotechnology is still in the stage of ambiguity. No scientist can guarantee that nano products are free from health or environmental safety threats. But in some countries, it is gradually found that some potential hazards in some nanotechnology products. And the current globalization of goods through the network, these products and potential hazards are a cross-border, cross-cutting risk. In the development of a national innovation system context, industrial development was seen as the primary objective, and the science was seen as neutral and objective. In the co-operation with scientists, environmental changes and hazards are quantified as data, making the “non-scientific knowledge” public and laymen were excluded from the scientific fields. However, the raw materials and equipments of high-tech industries are all from abroad, while Taiwan’s Government invests a lot of resources in innovation and improvement processes, but does not concern the production process and raw materials on human health and environmental hazards. Behind the operation of the science mechanism is the ideology of the innovation system and economic development - oriented. In the past, it has always thought that science can solve any problem and become the best economic development aide. In fact, technology often brings problems they can’t solve, and its consequences are abided by everyone.n this paper, this point of view is that any new goods and the beginning of industrial development, the Government should regulate to a certain control. The ideal risk management framework should be taking into consideration the uncertainty of nanotechnology, couple with various advanced countries in the risk management frameworks suitable to the development of Taiwan’s nanotechnology risk governance.
Subjects
Nanotechnology
Nano risk
National Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Program
Developmental state
Risk society
Risk governance
Scientific uncertainty
Type
thesis
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