More investor interest
Two items join the drumbeat of coverage on the increasing interest by investors and venture capital firms in nanotechnology.
The first, from Small Times, covers a report issued by investment brokerage firm Merrill Lynch to its clients ("Merrill Lynch report bullish on nanotech as an investment", by Jeff Karoub, 7 September 2001). The report follows in the wake of a number of similar investment-oriented analyses of nanotechnology that have been issued in recent months.
A second report, from Tornado Insider ("Small is Big", by Alan R. Katz, 31 August 2001) provides a European perspective.
September 10th, 2001 at 9:44 PM
Merrill Lynch is ill-informed
It would appear the Merrill Lynch report, coauthored by John Roy and Steven Milunovich, is somewhat ill-informed.
They list as #5 under their "emerging markets",
Gee, self-replicating nanoscale machines are "fantastical", wow! And yet, according to Nanomedicine, pg 247, virtually every human has in their possession approximagely 40 trillion self-replicating semi-programmable nanoscale machines. They are more commonly known as bacteria. In an engineered form, they are capable of producing everything from the insulin taken by diabetics to the enzymes in our detergents. These are multi-billion dollar a year industries. I wonder what kind of markets are required to generate "investors' interest"?