Nanotechnology Industry Worldwide 2003-2015: Market and market development, impacts, Applications, Technological prospects, Regions and Countries, Convergence of molecular technologies

摘要

Each company worldwide will be changed by "Nanoconvergence". Nanotechnology is a cross-section technology and will change or redefine all known technologies and markets in the 21 century. It will create new applications and processes and change the branches. On a short-term basis, nanotechnology will complement and change life science, pharma, diagnostic, medicine technology, food, environmental technology, water, energy, electroics, mechanical engineering and so on. The world markets for pure nanotech products only come to a few billions USD, markets and products using nanotech are already many times bigger. The global growth rates will, according to branch and application, amount to 8-21% p.a. in the next 15 years. Worldwide more than 4000 companies and research institutes are dealing with nanotech, restricted to turnover and services, there are about 1900 companies and restricted to products, 1020 companies. The R&D spendings worldwide are 7.4 billion USD in 2002 and will increase up to 26.0 billion USD by 2006 (government and industries). The total markets for nanotechnology worldwide will grow from USD 110.6 billion in 2003 to 299.9 billion in 2006 and 891.1 billion in 2015. This is the nanoindustry and not the applications. The data is based on a latest study from Helmut Kaiser Consultancy, Tubingen. The leading countries today are USA, Japan, China, Germany. China is now one of the world leaders in terms of its number of newly registered nanotechnology firms. Over the past three years, the number of companies in the field of nanotechnology in China has grown and reached over 600. This growth rate is very rapid and it does not show signs of slowing down. The sales to date have been largely domestic, but with the increasing global interest on the development of nanotechnology and with the advantage of modem communication we can safely speculate that this could be a very profitable investment in the near future.