Thesis
Nature Nanotechnology 3, 65 - 66 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.14
Subject Categories: Education and research | Ethical, legal and other societal issues
The economy of promises
Richard Jones1
Abstract
Is it possible to reconcile the caution of most scientists about their results with the demands of the media for headlines and the growing emphasis placed by funding agencies on the economic impact of research? Richard Jones urges scientists to be careful in their claims.
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Richard Jones is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield.
e-mail: r.a.l.jones@sheffield.ac.uk
