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Article: Harnessing Nanotechnology to improve global equity: the less industrialized countries are eager to play an early role in developing this technology; the global community should help them.
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- Issues in Science and Technology
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- June 22, 2005
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Developing countries usually find themselves on the sidelines watching the excitement of technological innovation. The wealthy industrialized nations typically dominate the development, production, and use of new technologies. But many developing countries are poised to rewrite the script in nanotechnology. They see the potential for nanotechnology to meet several needs of particular value to the developing world and seek a leading role for themselves in the development, use, and marketing of these technologies. As the next major technology wave, nanotechnology will be revolutionary in a social and economic as well as a scientific and technological sense.
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