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Título del libro: Nanotechnology And Development: What's In It For Emerging Countries?
Título del capítulo: NST without NII?: The Mexican case study

Autores UNAM:
EDUARDO ROBLES BELMONT; REBECA NADIA XIMENA DE GORTARI RABIELA;
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Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2013
Resumen:

Introduction The launching of the ?National Nanotechnology Initiative? in 2001 in the United States sent a strong signal throughout the world that the development of capabilities in nanoscience and nanotechnology (NST) is important for any country wishing to exploit advances in science and technology for economic development. Even though research in NST had started much earlier in the US, by investing enormous sums in a national program for NST development, the American initiative fired the gun shot for the start of an international race. Initiatives of this type were immediately imitated by other Western countries. In Europe, for example, they took the form of investment in the creation and consolidation of technology clusters such as the ?MINATEC? pole in France and the ?Mesa+? in the Netherlands (Robinson et al., 2007). These initiatives tended to focus on international scientific collaboration networks such as the ?NanoForumEULA,? which is a part of the ?Sixth EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.? But, investment in the development of these new technologies was not to be the exclusive reserve of developed countries. Emerging countries scrambled to do their best for NST. In Latin America, Brazil launched a national program in 2003 and Argentina created The Argentinean Nanotechnology Foundation in 2005. Whereas, in Mexico there was no fanfare and no heralding of any expensive nano-only programme! Nevertheless, NST being what it is, scientists in Mexico, could not stand by and watch things happening in other parts of the world, without doing anything themselves. © Cambridge University Press 2014.


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