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Moving Nanotechnology Toward the Market: Business Strategy and IP Management in the Value Chain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Sara Giordani
Sara Giordani*
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[email protected], TTP Lab, Vicenza, Italy
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Abstract

The idea that nanotechnologies have the potential to transform different industry sectors and impact on various market segments is receiving large support and contributions from international economic organisations’ reports, research institutions’ newsletters, academics’ and management scholars’ papers and consulting firms’ articles. The patent landscape, with its burgeoning number of patent filings, and the patent offices worldwide reporting on the increasing number of patent applications in the nanotechnology field, appear as complementary indicators of this trend. As nanosciences research and engineering efforts made feasible the attractive promise of closing the gap between research and industrialization, research outcomes and applications were protected for exclusive exploitation via patent filing and patent portfolio building.

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nanoscalenanostructurecatalytic
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1209: Symposia P/YY – Business and Safety Issues in the Commercialization of Nanotechnology , 2009 , 1209-P05-03
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2010

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