Governments Lead the Charge for Nano's Development in Asia

July 22, 2005 – Nanotechnology in emerging economies in Asia has been driven mostly by government policies and strategies. Governments of rising Asian nanotech giants like China, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan are investing heavily in research, encouraging academia–industry collaboration and providing incentives for commercialization of nanotechnologies. While there is increasing corporate investment in nanotech in these countries, governments continue to provide the bulk of funds and support resources. Asia is also witnessing a steady shift toward applied research, and new startups and incumbents are starting to bring exciting nanotech products to market.

The discovery of carbon nanotubes at NEC Corp.'s research lab in Japan helped spark global interest in nanotechnology. Japan remains a world leader, and enjoys a commanding lead in terms of investment and commercialization of nanotechnologies in the Asia-Pacific region, with close to $1 billion spent under the Nanotechnology and Materials Program. But other Asian countries are catching up.

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...we let slip through our fingers.

Third world status, here we come !!!!!

to keep the peasants in fear for their jobs, making us endlessly chase the carrots of "the next big thing" but never putting forth the money needed in education, R&D and infrastructure for us to realize it. Instead, all of the money goes to the CEOverlord's ever-swelling bank accounts and whatever's left over gets put in Asian R&D, unwittingly creating their own competition that's going to grind us in the shitter.

Yet Big Money conservatits and their libertarian apologists STILL keep tossing out the long burnt "retraining is the key", "Get smarter, dummy!" canards without realizing one simple TEENSY problem . . . all the degrees in the WORLD ain't a'gonna make a salt lick of difference. THEY'RE. STILL. CHEAPER.

The Asians are not-so-silently growing the next huge technological utopia, while our priorities lie in torching billions in cash per month to create a terrorist hotbed where there wasn't one before, killing scores of citizens and soldiers and making a handful of pink oil assholes richer. Middle class workers are already being priced out of a market they haven't learned yet, but will need to depend on for their survival.

Lurking * voters - listen carefully. You're driving the getaway car into a hailstorm of bullets. And you're taking the rest of us with you. Hope you enjoyed your vote as you starve.

we have our government giving increased tax incentives to offshore our jobs, busy making college absolutely impossible for the majority of Americans to go with price increase and decreases in any grants, and we have some sort of propaganda media campaign going on to claim that only foreigners now have a brain or skills (we can't run our company without foreign engineers, americans need to improve in math and science..
yet MIT grads have problems finding jobs now...)