As Secretary Geithner Highlights Nanotechnology …-workshop

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is visiting an Arkansas specializing in nanotechnology, today, to stop using the NanoMech to highlight the benefits of the tax credit R&D.

The company's web site (Hey, a .biz domain name!) tells fascinating news about its products, including technology of nano-engineered body armor and nano-lubricant. So we should expect some comments from Secretary Geithner on the Administration's views on nanotechnology.

We always turn to Instapundit to catch up on the latest developments in technology and policy and in doing so this morning, find this post:

Well, it's causing A LOT OF OTHER PROBLEMS: is political uncertainty because of anemic growth in the nanotechnology innovation?

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit links to a blog post from the Foresight Institute, which is based on a column to nanotechnology now by Skip Rung, President and Executive Director of ONAMI, Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute.

In "getting our Groove back into production innovation: nanomaterials, nanotechnology and the political uncertainty," Rung writes:

Post-November 2010, Washington DC Jura recognizes how vital are entrepreneurs and innovation, and that regulations will be reviewed for costs vs. benefits (if you believe for even a femtosecond laser that anything useful will be that, call me about investing in my new company flubber). And of course, the crowd soundbite "staple a green card to science and engineering postgraduate" continues to be heard from politicians of both major flavors. Anyone actually trying to keep a key employee PhD here (rather than be sent back to China to compete with them) is thoroughly sick and tired of hearing that empties the promise.

If everything that politicians and the show, doing everything, anything, except address the imminent public delinquencies did commits suicide, so I think you're as the optimist in me says ' uncertainty ' policy in the face of what often seems firm determination of the Government of the United States to undermine its economy.

Yeah.

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