TY - JOUR AU - Pitts, Elizabeth AB - Nanoethics (2015) 9:85–87 DOI 10.1007/s11569-015-0221-6 BOOK REVIEW Shaping Emerging Technologies: Governance, Innovation, Discourse Edited by Kornelia Konrad, Christopher Coenen, Anne Dijkstra, Colin Milburn and Harro van Lente, 2013. (IOS Press / AKA, Berlin), ISBN:978-1-61499-300-1, 248 p. Elizabeth A. Pitts Received: 27 January 2015 /Accepted: 29 January 2015 /Published online: 24 February 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 This edited collection presents a selection of papers ranging from efforts to embed critical scholars into re- from the 2012 conference of the Society for the Study search and development processes to forums for public of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.NET), dialogue. Michael Gorman and Daan Schuurbiers pro- an international network of scholars and practitioners pose convergent technology engagement, an approach who seek to understand and influence the relationships that integrates social scientists and humanists as full between technologies and socio-economic contexts. contributors in multiple stages of research and develop- Like S.NET itself, the collection is heterogeneous: or- ment. Koen Dortmans and Tsjalling Swierstra outline a ganized under the headings of Engagements, series of questions to help facilitators of public engage- Regulatory Governance, Innovation, and Discourse, its ment improve the quality of deliberations. Koert van sixteen chapters reflect a broad range of TI - Shaping Emerging Technologies: Governance, Innovation, Discourse JF - NanoEthics DO - 10.1007/s11569-015-0221-6 DA - 2015-02-24 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/shaping-emerging-technologies-governance-innovation-discourse-e3P3yUjGjw SP - 85 EP - 87 VL - 9 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -