ABSTRACT
As a first step in the study of the emergence of the nanotechnology field, this chapter provides a snapshot of salient features of nanotechnology entrepreneurship. This will serve in later chapters to explore connections with institutional emergence and build the main argument of the research: that a key element to understanding the relation between the emergence of the nanotechnology field and the creation of new institutions or modification of existing ones is the awareness of the importance of the concept of sustainable development.
