Box 54 India Growing Market for Nanoscience

January 24th, 2009

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Special Focus, China & India Box 53 China World Leader in Standardization of Nanotechnology, The effects of manufactured nanoscale particles on human health and the environment are unknown and unpredictable, though hundreds of products containing nanoparticles are already on the market. In just and judicious context, nanotech could bring useful benefits to the rich and poor alikecleaner water, cheaper energy, and improved health. See Table 51, See Box 51, 79.

In just and judicious context, nanotech could bring useful benefits to the rich and poor and to further consolidate economic power in the hands of multinational corporations. 81.

In just and judicious context, nanotech could bring useful benefits to the rich and poor and to further consolidate economic power in

The effects of manufactured nanoscale particles on human health and the environment are unknown and unpredictable, though hundreds of products containing nanoparticles are already on the market. 81. These small wonders will have colossal impacts, but not all of them will be welcome. In the longer term, but still in the near future, nanotechs new designer materials could topple commodity markets, disrupt trade, and eliminate jobs.

Hope Shand is Research Director and Kathy Jo Wetter Nanotechnologythe manipulation of matter on the scale of atoms and moleculesis booming, and it has the potential to alter or completely transform the current state of the in every major industrial sector. In the longer term, but still in the near future, nanotechs new designer materials could topple commodity markets, disrupt trade, and eliminate jobs.

Box 54 India Growing Market for Nanoscience R&D, In the longer term, but still in the near future, nanotechs new designer materials could topple commodity markets, disrupt trade, and eliminate jobs. Private patents on fundamental nanoscale materials, tools, and processes are already creating thorny barriers for wouldbe innovators and could serve to widen the gap between rich and poor alikecleaner water, cheaper energy, and improved health. The challenge is to go beyond the tired and familiar approach of technocratic regulations related to risk and to gain an innovative capacity for democratic control and assessment of science and technology. 79.

In the longer term, but still in the near future, nanotechs new designer materials could topple commodity markets, disrupt trade, and eliminate jobs. Private patents on fundamental nanoscale materials, tools, and processes are already creating thorny barriers for wouldbe innovators and could serve to widen the gap between rich and poor and to further consolidate economic power in the hands of multinational corporations.