The objective of this conference is to foster responsive governance mechanisms related to emerging technologies that address cross-cutting issues to ensure safe and effective products and environments. The organisers want to stimulate joint research in regulatory science and to coordinate efforts of scholars in diverse disciplines with practitioners and policymakers across the United States and internationally. Bringing together leading experts from multiple disciplines, three panels will address three cross-cutting topics: (1) regulation of emerging technologies, (2) framing authoritative science for policy and regulatory decisions and (3) identifying appropriate loci of regulatory oversight. Within those, a wide range of tools and mechanisms will be explored, including private approach towards regulation, such as self-regulation and enforcement litigation, and hybrid mechanisms, such as co-regulation and ‘meta’ regulation, where the state’s regulatory bodies oversee others. These topics will be explored across different domain areas: drug, device and diagnostic development; climate change mitigation and nanoscale technology R&D.
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