NRI Announces Nano Technology Market Forecasts.Tokyo, Japan, July 21, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) ) - Nomura Research Institute (NRI NRI Nomura Research Institute (Tokyo, Japan) NRI Non-Resident Indian NRI Natural Resources Institute NRI National Resources Inventory NRI Networked Readiness Index NRI Natural Resources Inventory NRI National Research Institute ) disclosed on July 20 its forecasts on the domestic nano (1) Billionth (10 to the -9th power). See space/time. (2) Refers to the nanotech industry in general. See nanotechnology. (3) See iPod nano. technology market, covering consumer, automotive, industrial robot An industrial robot is officially defined by ISO[1] as an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes. , medical equipment, electronics, energy and environment, material, and measurement hardware segments. NRI forecasts that the Japanese nano-tech market will quantumleap from 942.1 billion yen ($8.1 bil) in 2004 to 5,649.8 billion yen ($48.7 bil) in 2010 and 23,061.2 billion yen ($198.8 bil) in 2015. Three factors are attributed to the expansion of the market: (i) the existing market will grow through the use of nano technologies; (ii) the existing products will be replaced by nano-applied products; and (iii) new segments will emerge through commercial use of nano technologies. NRI will publish the research report on August 1. Copyright [c] 2006 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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