Layout of China Domestic and Foreign Corporations in China’s Nanotechnology Market

摘要

Patents are the manifest output of corporation's market layout. This paper explores the arrangement of four nanotechnology market fields of both China domestic and foreign companies in China, including Nano-materials, Nano-electronics & information, Nano-biology & medical, Nano-measurement & process. The results showed that both China domestic and foreign companies have become more interested in China's nano-markets, and the number of patents exhibited rapid growth after the year of 2000. In the overall market layout of China domestic companies, nanomaterials apparently held the leading position over the past 23 years; nano-electronics & information was a rapidly developing area after 2000. Foreign corporations’ deployment was distinctly different. Nano-electronics & information, together with nano-materials was always the most important R&D areas and market development all through the period.