実験室の中の社会，社会に埋め込まれた実験室

フランスのナノテククラスターの展開と「ハイブリッドフォーラム」の展望

抄録

　Having learned a lesson from the public relations disaster associated with GMO, national governments and international organizations now spend huge amounts of money encouraging social scientists to undertake studies which will promote the social acceptance of nanoscience and nanotechnologies. In France, as in other developed countries, such studies have been prospering in recent years. Two research groups in particular (V. Mangematin and D. Vinck) have studied the innovation systems and laboratory ethnography of the nanotechnology cluster in Grenoble. We overview these French social science studies concerning nanotechnology and investigate the hybrid forum (Callon) as a device for the advancement of emerging science and technologies in society. Nanoscience and nanotechnologies will serve as a model case for the promotion of deliberative democracy in the field of science and technology.