its impact on patent law, nanotechnology has to be defined and its peculiarities have to be identified. In this first part …Emerging in the nineteenth century, with a focus on classical engineering and chemistry, patent law has seen many … of the analysis, two important categories of nanotechnology – active and passive nanotechnology – will also be presented …

. The data matches firm level accounting data with information on the patents that those firms and their subsidiaries have … applied for at the European Patents Office. We describe the data in detail. -- International investment and multinational …

technology. The emergence and rapid spread of nanotechnology offers a test case for how the world might act when confronted with … potentially creating new environmental and health risks. The author compares ethical issues identified by stakeholders in China …

Nanotechnology has experienced an accelerated development during the last 20 years. The newness of the topic …, ethical, and legal aspects of nanotechnology, as well as its development, implementation, and use. The economic benefit that … is promised to the owners -- or those controlling the knowledge and inventions around nanotechnology -- has encouraged …