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One of our most significant accomplishments is the ongoing development of the <i><a href="/policy/guidelines/">Foresight Guidelines for Responsible Nanotechnology Development</a></i> in collaboration with the Foresight Nanotech Institute.</p> <p>These Presentations have led to a more thoughtful and nuanced dialogue about the benefits and risks of this critically important technology.</p> <p>In 2002 we prepared a <a href="/documents/NNI_White_paper.pdf">white paper</a>, “Balancing the National Nanotechnology Initiative’s R&D Portfolio,” for the Office of Science and Technology Policy, in which we pointed out that the NNI should fund high risk/high payoff research such as molecular manufacturing, in addition to the lower-risk research that they were funding. We recommended that the NNI perform a feasibility analysis of molecular nanotechnology in order to address the criticisms. 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