Countries

Risk

Records

Total

Records

(1000) Ratio

Special-

ization*

USA 80 14.9 0.54 1.12

Germany 35 5.6 0.63 1.32

P.R. China 28 12.0 0.23 0.49

UK 21 3.3 0.63 1.31

Japan 20 6.1 0.33 0.69

South Korea 20 3.2 0.62 1.30

France 15 3.5 0.43 0.89

Italy 13 2.4 0.55 1.15

Australia 11 1.2 0.94 1.95

India 10 2.7 0.37 0.77

Nanotechnology Research and Innovation Systems Assessment GroupCenter 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 Technology

Key Research Questions

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

• Who is doing what in nano research and innovation?

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.eduaEmail: pshapira@gatech.edu

Membership of Georgia Tech RISA group (2010-2011)

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

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

**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 (R&D 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%

Nano multidisciplinarity2

Nano encompasses multiple disciplines, as is the case with other

emerging technologies, but clusters around core fields

Nature Nanotechnology

References

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)

Nano EHS4

Little short term spread of nano EHS (1000 random nano pubs.)

Citations of nanotechnology publications

Corporate entry5

Nano’s transition from discovery to application

0.0

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

1.0

1.2

1.4

1.6

1.8

2.0

US Corporations Non-US Corporations

Discovery

Application

Ratio of corporate patents to corporate articles

Leading US Nanodistricts by Publications and Cluster Type

1.9 or less

2.0 – 2.9

3.0 – 3.9

4.0 – 4.9

5.0 – 5.9

6.0 – 9.9

NanotechnologyPublications1990-2007*

x 1000

ONEOFF

GOV

TLEAD

LENT

GEOG

UNIV

DIV

NanodistrictCluster

Assignments

Legend

Forecasting nanobiosensor applications6

Piezoeletric biosensorPiezoelectric effect

Nanostructures

0D: Nanoparticles

1D: Nanowires

2D: Thin films

3D: Nanowire stacks

Analytical Functions

Quantum effect

Catalytic function

Enhanced heat transfer

Enhanced electron transfer

High binding capacity

Biosensors

Magnetic biosensor

Thermometric biosensor

Electrochemical biosensor

Conductometric biosensor

Optical biosensor

Improved detection limit

(e.g., single molecular

detection)

High sensitivity

High selectivity (or

specificity)

Fast response

High Stability

(Ruggedness)

Nano-Enhanced

Biosensing

Portable (or field

deployable)

Superparamagnetic effect

Electro/chemiluminescent

effect

Plasma-optical effect

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/s11051-009-9729-4

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.

Cited Subject Category 2006 Cited Subject Category 2008

1. Materials Science, Multi. 1. Materials Science, Multi.

2. Chemistry Physical 2. Chemistry Physical

3. Physics Applied 3. Physics Applied

4. Physics Condensed Matter 4. Chemistry Multidisciplinary

5. Multidisciplinary Sciences 5. Physics, Condensed Matter

6. Chemistry Multidisciplinary 6. Multidisciplinary Sciences

7. Physics Multidisciplinary 7. Nanoscience & Nanotech.

8. Physics, Atom. Mole. Chem. 8. Physics, Atom. Mole. Chem.

9. Nanoscience & Nanotech. 9. Physics, Multidisciplinary

33. Environmental Sciences 32. Environmental Sciences

39. Engineering, Environment. 38. Engineering, Environment.

68. Public, Envir., Occup. Hlth. 75. Public, Envir., Occup. Hlth.

109. Ecology 84. Ecology