Science and technology measurement and evaluation firm Science-Metrix, Canada, has announced the launch of the Nanotechnology World R&D Report 2008. This off-the-shelf report, based on Elsevier's Scopus and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) data, enables its users to rapidly determine where and by whom R&D on the nanoscale is being conducted.
The Nanotechnology World R&D Report shows that US and Japanese companies and universities have traditionally led developments in this field. With some exceptions, Europe is failing to catch up with the US and Japan in nanoscale R&D, while China and Taiwan, Korea, India, and Singapore are rapidly becoming scientific and technological powers to contend with. The report provides analysts an overview of how well 25 countries, 130 companies and 125 universities from around the world score based on scientific and technological output, research intensity and impact in nanoscale R&D.
This new benchmarking tool examines the intellectual property position in the US and the scientific output, as indexed in the Scopus database, to highlight strengths and collaboration patterns in eight key domains of nanotechnology and nanoscience research. The first report in this series focuses on domains within nanoscale R&D that have a high level activity in both science and technology - electronics and computing, metrology, energy, optics and photonics, environment, NEMS, materials, and medicine and biology. These domains are examined on four levels - the world, countries, companies and universities.
R&D Reports is a division of Science-Metrix that produces off-the-shelf reports on R&D performed in research-intensive fields. Using bibliometric methods, the data and analyses in each report are independently-produced, robust, objective and reproducible. Based on scientometrics, R&D Reports locates and ranks the world's research hotspots through careful examination of scientific publications and, based on technometrics, compares the IP portfolio of leading countries, organisations and researchers, and reveals the interrelationships between these leading organisations.
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