That is tough. It depends what you call nanotechnology. A lot of
nanoscale
science is called nanotechnology but the really serious people would not
consider
it so. Your best "simple" bet is to try and google on the various budgets
for
various countries (U.S., Japan, Taiwan, EU, etc.). I'm guessing from the
various numbers I've seen the growth rate is 15-20%/year and now stands
between $2-3 billion/yr from a government standpoint. Factoring in
private
funding
and you might be up above $5 billion/yr but what you call nanotech is
*really*
fuzzy from a private standpoint. You could call all of the R&D done to
push
semiconductor equipment into the sub-100 nm realm. Since that is the NSF
definition for nanotech is ~1-100 nm, all of that R&D "magically" becomes
"nanotech".
ratna wrote:
Hi, I am looking for statistics related to nanotechnology, esp. data
from which i can see some trend in the activity of nanotechnology.
thanks you for the pointers in advance.
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