Steven Syre is Globe columnist. during the Internet boom. He can be reached at syreglobe. com. Copyright Globe Newspaper Company. Making money off them be another matter. Nanotechnology already enhances common products from pants that dont wrinkle to lighter carbon graphite tennis rackets. But homerun potential lies in dramatically smaller integrated circuits and improved medical diagnostics and therapeutics. A lot of the nanotechnology action is still taking place in basic science labs and Greater Boston is hotbed of activity. One of the bestknown nanotech startups in Massachusetts, Nantero Inc. Then President Bush signed bill in to invest nearly 3.

of Palo Alto, Calif., closely followed startup that agreed to collaborate on nanotech research with Intel Corp. Nanometrics Inc. has climbed percent over the past year. Harris & Harris made its first investment in nanotechnology company in and counts at least in its portfolio. National Diagnostics Inc. became Nanobac Pharmaceuticals Inc., US Global Aerospace Inc. One of the bestknown nanotech startups in Massachusetts, Nantero Inc. It looks little like the telecom stock boom few years because the technology might improve on old products by dizzying degrees but it faces practical, realworld obstacles.

Nanometrics Inc. But it doesnt give you good reason to invest in of the nano stocks at todays prices. One of the bestknown nanotech startups in Massachusetts, Nantero Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., closely followed startup that agreed to collaborate on nanotech research with Intel Corp. became Nanobac Pharmaceuticals Inc., US Global Aerospace Inc. MoreBusiness section. Latest business news. Globe front page .Boston. com Sign up forGlobe Headlines email .Breaking News Alerts. has climbed percent over the past year. Harris & Harris made its first investment in nanotechnology company in and counts at least in its portfolio. Making money off them be another matter.

National Diagnostics Inc. Harris & Harris Group Inc., public venture capital firm that trades in tiny technology companies, has soared percent over the same period. Then President Bush signed bill in to invest nearly 3. 7 billion in nanotechnologies and stocks spiked even higher. Nanogen Inc. Just like the Internet, biotech, and telecom, nanotechnology almost certainly will produce valuable new things, eventually. Chief executive Charles Harris says the valuation of private nanotech companies has remained reasonable, but he demurs on the question of surging public stock prices.There, youre getting beyond my pay grade, he says.