After many years of tremendous growth, the patent activities in nanotechnology have slightly decreased and the growth … of publication numbers in this field is slowing down. With these patterns nanotechnology exhibits typical characteristics …, the decrease of patents should not be interpreted as the end of the growth of nanotechnology, but rather as an …

underpinnings of ethics in qualitative social science research and its importance to the emerging field of nanotechnology. The paper … results and whether different ethical values are needed in qualitative social science research of nanotechnology …

Biotechnology is the key technology of the 21st century. Nanotechnology is about to follow, but has not met the … Tragedy of the Anticommons. As biotechnology and nanotechnology are very complex areas, scientists need access to several … nanotechnology? By evaluating this question I will, finally, give an answer on whether research tools should be patentable. What …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the current temporal and spatial trajectories in nanotechnology research in … nanotechnology have been growing in chemistry and medicine because of technological applications of new nanomaterials mainly in … Europe and North America have intensive scientific collaborations with foreign scholars in nanotechnology studies. This paper …