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The Emerging NanoEconomy: Key Drivers, Challenges and Opportunities
James Canton
Can we anticipate and direct the impact of
nanoscience on the economy? Will we be ready to develop the economic
opportunities and navigate the challenges that nanoscience will
bring? This keynote examines a strategic view of the emerging
NanoEconomy, focusing on some of the change drivers, key challenges
and opportunities that will face the nation in the near future.
Though nanoscience is in the early stages of invention, current
breakthroughs indicate significant potential. The convergence of
other key innovations in information technology and biotechnology,
for example, will be accelerators moving nanoscience into mainstream
commercial readiness. How might this occur? What other drivers of
the nanoeconomy will be relevant? A possible nanoeconomic ecosystem
will be reviewed. Attention to the key future-readiness factors that
may influence the emerging NanoEconomy will be examined including:
entrepreneurship, education, intellectual property, capital, jobs,
talent, supply chains, competition and nanoscience product or
service offerings. An analysis of future-readiness factors that we
need to adopt now, as a nation, to prepare for the coming
NanoEconomy, will be identified.
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Presented at the
International Congress of Nanotechnology, November 7-10, 2004
San Francisco, USA
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