Nanotech is booming in India
There has been a rumor in the last couple of years that the Indian industry is being slow to take off in nanotechnology. However, results of a study performed by the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), that were announced this week, have proven the opposite. Nanotech patents and publications have grown exponentially ever since the national initiative was launched in 2001.
Institutes funded by the government and universities are in the lead, and the industry representatives produced just a few patents over the years. The number of publications skyrocketed from 2,200 in 2007 to nearly 21,000 at the end of 2007 — which is obviously an “almost exponential” growth. Half of the number was produced by universities.
“The emergence of Indian universities as centres for the generation of nanotechnology knowledge is very encouraging,” said Vinod Kumar Gupta, a scientists from NISTADS.
Source: scidev.net/en/new-technologies/exponential-rise-in-indian-nanotech.html
