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The Impacts of Nanotechnology on Companies: Policy Insights from Case Studies
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This book examines the potential economic impacts of nanotechnology, how companies are using nanotechnology for innovation, and what the key challenges in its commercialisation might be.
Nanotechnology has its origin in the converging abilities of physics, chemistry and materials science. Its purpose is the manipulation of atoms and molecules in order to create new properties of materials and systems for a wide variety of applications in a very broad range of sectors.
Nanotechnology is forecast to
create large markets and many new jobs and may be the springboard for
industrial renewal and long-term growth. Governments around the world
have targeted this emerging technology in their R&D investments and are
strategising about the best ways to promote the responsible development
and use of nanotechnology given the absence of any in-depth analysis of
its commercialisation.
What are the potential economic impacts
of nanotechnology, how are companies using nanotechnology for
innovation, and what are the key challenges in its commercialisation?
These are some of the issues that this book addresses, based on a large
number of company case studies in several countries.
- Foreword;
- Executive summary;
- Introduction —the definitions, development and possible economic impacts of nanotechnology;
- Insights from previous studies on nanotechnology developments and commercialisation;
- Insights from the case studies on the impacts of nanotechnology on companies; and
- Main findings, policy issues and implications.