Nanobusiness Today
The landscape of nanotechnology is already being split among three kinds of entities. First are the open research labs including universities, national laboratories, and programs within government agencies such as National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Second are large corporations with research, development, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution capabilities such as Merck, IBM, Dow, Kraft, 3M, and Agilent (formerly part of Hewlett Packard), and third are the start-ups and spin-offs formed by professors, researchers, graduating students, and others who have seen an idea in a laboratory and want to commercialize it.
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