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Nanotechnology and the iPod

What’s the connection between nanotechnology, giant magnetoresistance, the iPod, and this year’s Nobel Prize in physics? Find out in this short film…

Author Richard JonesPosted on October 12, 2007Categories Evolutionary nanotechnology

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Richard Jones is a Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy at the University of Manchester. The views expressed on this blog are written entirely in a personal capacity.

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Longer reads: Science and innovation policy for hard times: an overview of the UK’s Research and Development landscape

A survey of the UK’s R&D landscape, in the context of the big strategic challenges the UK state currently faces.

Science and innovation policy for hard times: an overview of the UK’s Research and Development landscape.

Longer reads: on the UK’s regionally unbalanced R&D landscape


“Innovation,

The Missing 4 Billion: making R&D work for the whole UK. A report by Tom Forth and Richard Jones, for NESTA:

The Missing 4 Billion

Longer reads: on innovation, R&D and the UK’s productivity crisis


“Innovation,

Two working papers by Richard Jones, for the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute:

The UK’s Innovation Deficit & How to Repair it

Innovation, research and the UK’s productivity crisis

Longer reads: on transhumanism


“against

Transhumanism: technically wrong, ideologically suspect, and damaging to the way we talk about technology…

A 54 page (free) e-book (PDF) by Richard Jones:
Against Transhumanism: the delusion of technological transcendence

Longer reads: on nanotechnology

Soft Machines cover Soft Machines: nanotechnology and life, a book about nanotechnology. For more details about the book, see here.

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