Missing pre-requisites from nanotechnology research studies in the global scale: Firms, products and data

Over the past decade, being a continuously emerging industry and fast becoming the next technology revolution, nanotechnology has received commendable as well as non-commendable reviews on its contributions and potential destructions by various pundits and critics globally. Research activities have also strengthened worldwide and its applications have expanded throughout many economic sectors; making it currently a multi-sectoral technology instead of a standalone industrial sector. Scientific contributions have produced significant impact and are incessantly bringing new breakthrough inventions to the public interest; and even though potential uses of nanotechnology are immensely available, on the contrary, potential destructions are yet to be experimented, diagnosed, certified and brought forth to the people’s awareness. All this is considered imperative information to the future evolvement of technological research. This paper detects the missing definitions and key features that should be considered as essential ingredients for further research on nanotechnology with respect to firms, products and data. These aspects have not yet been given sufficient deliberation by researchers. Thus, numerous types of research have been published in the past without taking into account these following aspects. Therefore, this paper offers propositions for future directions in nanotechnology in terms of firms, products and data