Nanotechnology Research and Innovation Systems Assessment Group

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Nanotechnology Research and Innovation Systems
Assessment Group Center for Nanotechnology in
Society at Arizona State University (NSEC SES
0531194) Authors Philip Shapira,a Jan Youtie,
Alan Porter, Juan Rogers, Georgia Institute of
Technology
Nanotechnology Research and Innovation Systems
Assessment Group Georgia Institute of
TechnologyKey Research Questions
Nano multidisciplinarity2 Nano encompasses
multiple disciplines, as is the case with other
emerging technologies, but clusters around core
fields
Corporate entry5 Nanos transition from discovery
to application
Ratio of corporate patents to corporate articles

• Who is doing what in nano research and
  innovation?

Nature Nanotechnology

• Where? When? With whom? With what implication?

The Georgia Tech research group on nanotechnology
research and innovation systems assessment
undertakes research on and analyses of
developments and implications of the trajectories
and organization of nanotechnology research and
nanotechnology enterprise and commercialization.
Web site www.nanpolicy.gatech.edu aEmail
pshapira_at_gatech.edu
Membership of Georgia Tech RISA group (2010-2011)
Leading US Nanodistricts by Publications and
Cluster Type

• Masters and BS
• Travis Horsley
• Audrey Campbell
• Annie Bidgood
• Associates
• Yu Meng
• Jue Wang
• Visiting Researchers
• Lidan Gao (CAS)
• Tingting Ma (BIT)
• Wenping Wang (BIT)
• IISC
• Nils Newman
• Webb Myers

• Lead researchers
• Philip Shapira
• Alan Porter
• Jan Youtie
• Juan Rogers
• Doctoral students
• Li Tang
• Stephen Carley
• Luciano Kay
• Sanjay Arora

Active nanostructures3

• Shift? Yes, after 2006
• 21,000 articles from WOS/SCI from 1995 to 2008
• Product implications
• Remote Actuated (e.g., Magnetic, electrical,
  light and wireless tagged nanotechnologies)
• Environmentally Responsive (e.g., actuators, drug
  delivery)
• Miniaturized (e.g., molecular electronics)
• Hybrid (e.g., uncommon material combinations,
  biotic-abiotic, organic-inorganic in chips)
• Transforming (e.g., self-healing materials)

CNS-ASU related NSF project
The 15 leading public sponsors of nanotechnology
research1
Funding Organization Country Publications of Total Cumulative
1 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) China 10222 11 11
2 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) US 6651 7 18
3 China Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) China 4719 5 24
4 European Union (RD programs) EU 3545 4 27
5 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) US 3115 3 31
6 China Ministry of Education (MOE) China 3097 3 34
7 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) US 3008 3 38
8 U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) US 2575 3 40
9 German Research Foundation (DFG) Germany 2553 3 43
10 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT) Japan 2396 3 46
11 Taiwan National Science Council (NSC) Taiwan 1824 2 48
12 Korea Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Development (MEST) South Korea 1733 2 50
13 Russian Academy of Sciences Russia 1282 1 51
14 Nature Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Canada 1217 1 52
15 Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) South Korea 1215 1 54
Subtotal 49152 54
Total 91614 100
Forecasting nanobiosensor applications6
Nano EHS4 Little short term spread of nano EHS
(1000 random nano pubs.)
Citations of nanotechnology publications
References

1. Analysis of Georgia Tech global nanotechnology
   publications database, August 2008 July 2009
   (inclusive) All records 91,614 funding
   information available for 61,309 (67) Some
   articles acknowledge multiple funders
2. Porter, A.L. and Youtie, J. 2009. Where does
   nanotechnology belong in the map of science?
   Nature Nanotechnology, 4, 534-536.
3. Vrishali Subramanian, Jan Youtie, Alan L. Porter,
   and Philip Shapira (2009). Is there a shift to
   "active nanostructures?" Journal of Nanoparticle
   Research, 2009 http//dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11051-00
   9-9729-4
4. Youtie, J., Porter, A.L., Shapira, P., Tang, L.,
   and Benn, T. The Use of Environmental Health and
   Safety Research in Nanotechnology Research.
   Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
   (Forthcoming, 2010)
5. Shapira, P., Youtie, J., Kay, L, 2009. Corporate
   Entry into Nanotechnology through Patents and
   Publications 1990 to 2008. STIP Working Paper.
6. Huang, L., Guo, Y., and Porter, A.L. 2009.
   Identifying Emerging Nanoparticle Roles in
   Biosensors. Journal of Business Chemistry.
   Forthcoming.