Should corporations contribute to nano-regulation?

∗ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 480 965 1799. E-mail address: jposner@asu.edu (J.D. Posner). 1 See, for example, the September 21, 2006 House Committee on Science and Technology Hearing on ‘‘Research on Environmental and Safety Impacts of Nanotechnology: What are the Federal Agencies Doing?’’ [http://science.house.gov/publications/hearings markups details.aspx?NewsID=1186] and the April 24, 2008 US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation Hearing on the ‘‘National Nanotechnology Initiative: Charting the Course of Reauthorization’’ [http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index. cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing ID=5fdb60ea-8841401c-9290-019eeb84e11c]. 2 E.g. the FDA’s September 8, 2008 Nanotechnology Public Meeting in Rockville, MD [http://www.fda.gov/nanotechnology2008/] and w n w