ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the development of educational and workforce capacity to satisfy the growing need for nanobiotechnology-savvy citizens. Analysts track nanotechnology publication, patenting, and investment data to predict the future demand for a nanotechnology workforce. In the short term, the nanobiotechnology workforce will be made up of researchers with graduate degrees in fields related to nanobiotechnology such has physics, chemistry, bioengineering, biotechnology, immunology, etc. Changes in immigration law will be required to make it easier to retain this portion of the science, engineering, and nanobiotechnology workforce. Moving forward, the nanobiotechnology workforce needs a set of skills that will allow them to research, develop new technologies, and produce in interdisciplinary environments. The fusion of nanotechnology with biotechnology is a momentous connection combining innovations from the entire sweep of human history with our radical new ability to understand and manipulate matter on the nanoscale.
