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Applied Nanotechnology, 3rd Edition
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Applied Nanotechnology, 3rd Edition

by Jeremy Ramsden
January 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
312 pages
11h 48m
English
William Andrew
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Chapter 12

The Business Environment

Abstract

Nanomaterials are incorporated into other products, making nanotechnology biased towards upstream production, a corollary of which is that the technology can rapidly become pervasive. Many nanotechnology companies were spun out of universities, and close company–university collaboration is a feature of the industry. It tends to bias the industry in favor of research and for many companies research and development grants, rather than the commercial trading of the materials or devices that they produce, constitute their main source of income. Except in cases where a nanoproduct can be substituted for non-nano product with a clear benefit, it has turned out to be difficult to introduce nanoscale ...

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ISBN: 9780128133446