title: [Responsible research and development? Translating absences from nanotechnology in Portugal].
abstract: This article analyzes how responsible innovation has been discussed and implemented in the context of one of the Portuguese government's main activities to foster nanotechnology. Through the actor-network theory and the sociology of absences, we investigate the process of coproduction at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory to identify how concerns about responsible development have been implemented or ignored in the rules and practices. The institute emerged from a sociotechnical imagination that views it as an autonomous unit for producing technological innovations aimed exclusively at increasing competitiveness in a global market, which has been an obstacle to the materialization of robust responsible development practices.
authors.affiliation: Pesquisador pós-doutorando, Instituto de Pesquisa em Risco e Sustentabilidade/Departamento de Sociologia e Ciência Política/Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Campus Universitário, Trindade - Caixa Postal 476. 88040-900 - Florianópolis - SC - Brasil. dopaulo@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Paulo F C
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Fonseca
authors.affiliation: Investigador, Centro de Estudos Sociais/Universidade de Coimbra. Colégio de São Jerónimo, apartado 3087. 3000-995 - Coimbra - Portugal. tsp@ces.uc.pt.
authors.forename: Tiago Santos
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Pereira