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• Nanotechnology patent problems blamed on unionization

  Small Times reports on a meeting held in Oregon among a wide variety of nanotechnology-based business participants, at which many commercialization challenges were discussed. One was difficulties encountered with the U.S. Patent office: Start-ups expressed Read more
  Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 4:47 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 1 Comments

  Tags: Nanobusiness, Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Opinion, Open Source, Investment/Entrepreneuring, Nanotechnology, Economics, Nanotech, Nano, Intellectual Property, Complexity, Nanojobs

• Helping poor countries with nanotechnology

  Foresight members and others would like to find ways to use nanotechnology to help those who need help the most. It’s a challenge, as described more generally by Nancy Birdsall, Dani Rodrik, and Arvind Subramanian, writing in Foreign Affairs. They suggest Read more
  Posted Tuesday, November 28, 2006 7:28 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Opinion, Investment/Entrepreneuring, Nanotechnology, Government programs, Developing world, Economics, Nanotech, Nano, New Institutions

• Nanotechnology risks? Ask the economists

  Darrell Dvorak at MidwestBusiness.com points out that there’s often some expertise missing from discussions on nanotech risk: Because nanotech operates at the molecular level, there has been much speculation about new, unknown risks of nano products Read more
  Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:36 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Opinion, Nanotechnology, Economics, Nanotech, Nano, Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Environment, Health, and Safety

• Nanotechnology: alleviate poverty or reduce inequality?

  The role of nanotechnology in the developing world is questioned by Prof. Guillermo Foladori of Mexico in his Nanotechnology Law & Business article “Nanotechnology in Latin America at the Crossroads” (free abstract, full PDF requires a fee Read more
  Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:52 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Nanotechnology, Developing world, Economics