Nanotechnology and the US national innovation system: continuity and change |
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Authors: | David C Mowery |
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Institution: | (1) Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley & NBER, S545 Haas School of Business #1900, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1900, USA |
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Abstract: | A substantial literature on nanotechnology innovation and commercial development has characterized several elements of these
phenomena as constituting new developments in the US national innovation system. Among these elements are the (asserted) “post-academic”
nature of US universities’ involvement with nanotechnology R&D, and federal funding of nanotechnology R&D on goals related
to economic competitiveness. This paper challenges the “novelty” of these elements, while suggesting that other elements of
nanotechnology R&D, including the extensive patenting of the results of nanotechnology-related research and the emphasis within
many university-industry collaborations on patent-based channels for “technology transfer,” may indeed be new and raise questions
for the long-term efficiency and innovative performance of nanotechnology-related R&D. |
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