Can Emerging Technologies Make a Difference in Development?

"Emerging Technologies poses a set of vital critical questions about engineering and science as avenues to global health and development. In exploring the complex institutional origins, understudied risks, and mixed impacts of technologies ranging from solid-state lighting to nano-scale pesticides, from mobile phones to biofuels, the authors empower clarity and change for technical, policy, and general readers alike."

—Amy E. Slaton, History and Politics, Drexel University

"Parker and Appelbaum have assembled a superb array of insightful papers regarding technology development and deployment in the world's emerging and lesser emerging economies. For students and scholars, the various chapters provide a strong sense of the ingredients that define the leaders and laggards in capturing the benefits of new technology in the pursuit of more rapid and sustained development objectives."
—Denis Fred Simon, International Studies, University of Oregon

"Emerging Technologies poses a set of vital critical questions about engineering and science as avenues to global health and development. In exploring the complex institutional origins, understudied risks, and mixed impacts of technologies ranging from solid-state lighting to nano-scale pesticides, from mobile phones to biofuels, the authors empower clarity and change for technical, policy, and general readers alike."

—Amy E. Slaton, History and Politics, Drexel University

"Parker and Appelbaum have assembled a superb array of insightful papers regarding technology development and deployment in the world's emerging and lesser emerging economies. For students and scholars, the various chapters provide a strong sense of the ingredients that define the leaders and laggards in capturing the benefits of new technology in the pursuit of more rapid and sustained development objectives."
—Denis Fred Simon, International Studies, University of Oregon

Rachel A. Parker is a Research Staff Member at the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara where she worked with Richard Appelbaum at the NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, Center for Nanotechnology in Society; her research focuses on issues relating to emerging technologies and globalization.

Richard P. Appelbaum is MacArthur Chair in Global & International Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-PI at the NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, Center for Nanotechnology in Society, where he directs the interdisciplinary research group on globalization and nanotechnology.