ABSTRACT
Assessing the relative success of the institutional entrepreneurship venture of Pat Mooney and his NGO was no easy task, especially as the process was not complete when the field research ended in 2007. At that time, there had not been a moratorium on nanotechnology research, and there had not been a creation of an ICENT (International Convention for the Evaluation of New Technologies). However, what the NGO had achieved was stirring up a controversy and being part of the debates about the creation of new institutions, mainly regulatory institutions, but also ethics groups overseeing technological developments. What it could claim to have achieved was the following:
Contributing to putting nanotechnology regulation on the agenda
Contributing to slowing down research in some areas
Contributing to a new societal approach of technological progress
