id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ctnys55nwve5bm7mbh7nykg2re W. Patrick McCray Will small be beautiful? Making policies for our nanotech future 2005 28 .pdf application/pdf 14117 1145 52 The marshalling of Congressional support for the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) occurred against the background of post-Cold War (and, later, postSeptember 11) science and technology policies. Because research in nanoscience was not centralized in one or two national laboratories, funding the NNI would combat the trend towards 'Big Science,' offering a way to In urging Congress to fund a major national initiative for nanotechnology, advocates of the NNI deployed an array of effective arguments, some new and some War, and science advocates could no longer claim national defense as the prime rationale for funding basic research. C. Roco, 'Broader Societal Issues,' Office of Science and Technology Policy, 'National 'Nanotechnology: From Feynman to Funding.' Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society 24, 'National Nanotechnology Initiative: Research and Development Supporting the Next 'National Nanotechnology Initiative: Research and Development Funding in the President's 2005 Budget.' Washington, DC: Office of Science and ./cache/work_ctnys55nwve5bm7mbh7nykg2re.pdf ./txt/work_ctnys55nwve5bm7mbh7nykg2re.txt