Lux Research just published the third edition of their seminal report on the nanotechnology industry. The Nanotech Report 2004 profiles more than 1,000 companies and features new investment frameworks and strategies, company and academic profiles, patent licensing opportunities and trends, competitive data, interviews with Nobel laureates and industry experts, profiles of the most influential players in nanotechnology, and a technical primer.

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Key findings in the report include:

- Governments, corporations and venture capitalists will spend more than $8.6 billion worldwide on nanotechnology research and development in 2004.
- National & local governments will invest more than $4.6 billion in nanotech R&D in 2004.
- The U.S. government will spend nearly twice as much on nanotechnology this year as it did on the Human Genome Project in its peak year.
- The U.S. has now appropriated more than $3.16 billion to fund nanotechnology R&D since 2000 and is proposing $982 million in new funding for FY 2005.
- Major corporations will spend more than $3.8 billion on nanotech R&D in 2004.

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