Nanotech Research Spending Seen Reaching $8.6B
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Worldwide research and development spending in the emerging field of nanotechnology should rise about 10 percent this year to $8.6 billion, a research firm said on Monday.
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Agency awarded $4M in grants to study the health, environmental risks posed by manufactured nanomaterials -- invisibly tiny materials revolutionizing many industries but its effects on living things remain unknown.-The Washington Post
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Researchers have made analog electronics out of carbon nanotubes.
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Microsoft is getting more serious about investing in R&amp;D, according to Booz Allen Hamilton&#39;s&#160;annual study&#160;of the world&#39;s largest corporate R&amp;D spenders.Microsoft ranked 7th on the list for 2006, up a notch from 2005. The company devoted $6.58 billion to&#160;R&amp;D&#160;in 2006, up 6.5 percent from the year before and representing 14.9 percent of 2006 sales.Toyota topped the list with $7.7 billion in R&amp;D spending and Merck invested the most in R&amp;D as a percentage of sales among the top 20 companies, at 21.1 percent.Rounding out the list among IT vendors were Siemens, which fell from No. 6 to No. 9, investing in $6.3 billion for 2006; IBM, which fell from 9th to 10th even though its $6.1 billion in&#160;R&amp;D spending&#160;was up 4.5 percent from the year before; Samsung, which stayed in 11th place with $5.9 billion; Intel, which stayed at 12th and spent $5.8 billion on R&amp;D; Matsushita, which fell from 15th to 17th and spent $4.99 billion on R&amp;D in 2006; and Nokia, which fell from 17th to 18th, as its $4.89 billion in R&amp;D spending represented just a 1.9 percent increase from 2005.Overall, R&amp;D spending news was positive, according to Booz Allen, which monitors the 1,000 top corporate R&amp;D spenders worldwide. The dollar increase in R&amp;D investment in 2006 compared with 2005 was twice the increase from 2004 to 2005. North American companies led the way, with spending up 13 percent.R&amp;D spending growth also caught up to sales growth among the top 1,000 companies for the first time in four years.Check out Network World&#39;s&#160;Alpha Doggs blog&#160;for the latest in network research at universities and other labs.Network World is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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In the year that John Roese has been chief technology officer at Nortel Networks, spending on R&D has jumped from $10 million a year to 10 times that amount. The focus: WiMax.
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CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says getting funding for the nanotechnology Manhattan Project is the right idea. But is anybody listening?
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Scientists are chafing at the U.S. government's unfulfilled pledge to boost funding for basic scientific research, the source of innovations ranging from the World Wide Web to high-tech cancer treatments.
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A U.S. scientist said researchers should be using green chemistry to reduce future risks of nanotechnology.  Around the world, there is a growing urgency about nanotechnology and its possible health and environmental impacts, said University of Oregon Professor James Hutchison.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY -- engineering substances down to billionths of a meter in size -- holds out such promise of providing super-strong materials or desalinating water inexpensively that no one wants to put a red light in its way. But there are enough safety questions to justify more yellow lights than either industry or government has yet deployed.
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Nanoparticles allow researchers to initiate biochemical events at will.
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(InfoWorld) - The European Union will provide a sizeable amount of money to research groups this year as part of a multiyear program to spur research in new information and communications technologies. More than 2,000 ICT researchers met Thursday in Cologne, Germany, to learn how they can participate in the E.U.'s 7th Framework Program for research and development, with a budget of â¬50 billion ($65 billion) through 2013. ICT research accounts for the lion's share of the framework budget at â¬9.1 billion, with â¬1.2 billion to be allocated this year. The E.U. is keen to fund research in areas where the region has a technological edge, including communications, software systems, networked media, and embedded systems. The European government also hopes to speed innovation in areas where companies in the region could gain a competitive edge, such as next-generation Internet technology. Early E.U. investment in digital mobile communications, the Brussels government is quick to point out, led to the development and worldwide adoption of the GSM standard, the most widely used mobile phone system in the world. Research organizations across Europe are encouraged to establish a research priority, form a consortium, and apply for funding. The E.U., which launched a call for proposals on Dec. 22, will accept proposals through May 8. While researchers team up in Cologne, other partnerships are already taking shape in the ICT area. Under aÂ new strategy for funding technology research announced in November, the E.U. has agreed to pool its vast resources with those from private industry and individual member states in a public-private partnership. The plan calls for technology companies and research institutes to marry their own R&DÂ investments with additional funds from the member states and the E.U. through new Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI). The first JTI, called Artemis, is focused on embedded systems, an area signaled by European ministers as being of strategic importance for Europe's economy. European industry's own research investment in this area is estimated at around â¬15 billion to â¬20 billion per year. Â
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Scientist Robert P.H. Chang of Northwestern University had no trouble persuading education officials in Mexico to introduce the burgeoning field of nanotechnology to schools there, but it's been a far tougher sell in the United States.
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Advanced Micro Devices and Infineon Technologies, which already have chip plants in Dresden, plan to invest E170 million over the next five years in a center for nanotechnology research there.
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Sponsorship spending by North American companies is forecast to rise 12.6 percent this year to $16.78 billion, which would mark the biggest jump since 2000, according to a research firm.
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A proposal to spend &#36;3 billion in California state funds on stem-cell research is likely to attract scientists and create jobs, but some critics question whether the investment will pay off.
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A new carbon-based nanoscale material could be used to make ultrafast computers.
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The United States is the world leader in nanotechnology -- the newly blossoming science of making incredibly small materials and devices -- but is not paying enough attention to the environmental, health and safety risks posed by nanoscale products, says a report released yesterday by the...