ABSTRACT
The purpose of part two was to provide a broad outline of nanotechnology entrepreneurship by focusing on a few representative indicators, which would define the context from which to draw observations concerning the characteristics of institutional emergence and change accompanying it. At the time of this writing, nanotechnology research mobilized only a very small fraction of the world’s GDP. This means that whatever findings the study of nanotechnolgy entrepreneurship indicators could produce could only be inductive in essence, vindicating the methodological approach of this book, which is to build theory from the observation of a few illustrative cases.
