Online Research Company, Research and Markets has released a report titled, “Global Funding of Nanotechnologies- 2011 Edition”. The investment into nanotechnology research by various governments world- wide over the last 11 years is more than US$ 67 billion. This includes funding for researches that are in various stages namely translation stage, basic stage that require investment in instruments, facilities and other services.
Cientifica’s experience in keeping track of public funding for nanotechnologies and its association with various agencies and academic institutions has made the details of this report accurate.
The research gives a detailed analysis of funding that has been going on in the Americas, Asia, EMEA and RoW in distribution methods, region, funding in infrastructure, time period of the funding and the amount. The report takes into consideration the prevalent economic situation, policy, variance in the size of the funds allocation to basic infrastructure and equipment, nanotech centres and key programs
This report also encompasses the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Report that enunciates the countries capabilities to capitalize on their investments.
Some major highlights of this report is that the US investment on nanotechnology has slightly receded for the year 2011 and in line with the Purchasing Power Parity estimates, China has overtaken the US in funding nanotechnology research for the first time. Apart from the investments by governments across the world, taking into consideration the corporate and private investment in nanotechnology research will amount to a quarter of a trillion dollars by the year 2015.
Source: http://www.researchandmarkets.com