It’s a question of relative speed. Technology just motors ahead, be it nanotechnology or automated vehicles, and governance struggles to keep pace.

This is true of regulation, legal frameworks, applied ethics and indeed liability regimes. The Emerging Risk Group, based in the Department of Accounting and Finance within the Kemmy Business School at University of Limerick works on spanning the gap between emerging technologies and their attendant regulatory and liability requirements. Working closely with our colleagues in the School of Law, UL’s software scientists in Lero (the Irish software research centre), and material scientists at the Bernal Institute, it’s a truly interdisciplinary effort that has ensured UL’s involvement in five EU H2020 funded projects over the last few years. (Source: UL Links)

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