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  Nanotechnology - Foresight Nanotech Institute 

  http://www.foresight.org/

  Advancing Beneficial Nanotechnology Foresight is the leading think tank and public interest institute on nanotechnology. Founded in 1986, Foresight was the first organization to educate society about ... the benefits and risks of nanotechnology. At that time, nanotechnology was a little-known concept. Today, with the basic framework of public understanding in place, we are refocusing our efforts on guiding nanotechnology research, public policy and education to address the critical challenges facing humanity. Foresight’s new mission is to ensure the beneficial implementation of nanotechnology. Foresight is accomplishing this by providing balanced, accurate and timely information to help society understand and utilize nanotechnology through public policy activities, publications, guidelines, networking events, tutorials, conferences, roadmaps and prizes. Foresight is a member-supported organization. Our membership, including over 14,000 individuals and a growing number of corporations,   [More...] [Less...]

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  Corporate social responsibility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility

  [ edit ] Development and analysis The debate about CSR has been said to have began in the early 20th century, amid growing concerns about large corporations and their power [1] . The ideas of charity and ... stewardship helped to shape the early thinking about CSR in the US. Ida Tarbell ’s 1904 work The History of the Standard Oil Company helped lead to the decision of the decision to break up the company on antitrust grounds. Similarly, Upton Sinclair ’s 1906 book The Jungle led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act and the Meat Inspection Act by the United States Congress . These can be seen as early attempts to mandate socially responsible corporate behavior. The term CSR itself came in to common use in the early 1970s although it was seldom abbreviated. The term stakeholder , meaning those impacted by an organization's activities, was used to describe corporate owners beyond shareholders from around 1989. [2] Many large companies now issue a corporate social responsibility repo   [More...] [Less...]

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