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CHAPTER 2 - Learning from Solyndra

Changing Paradigms in the US Innovation System

from Part II - Winning and Losing in Nanotech: Case Studies from Developed Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2014

By
Christopher Newfield  and
Daryl Boudreaux
Edited by
Shyama V. Ramani
Shyama V. Ramani
Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
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Nanotechnology and Development
What's in it for Emerging Countries?
 , pp. 39 - 72
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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