The Day: Murder of scientists, a bad sign is the right time for private enterprise has an approach to nanotechnology, says Milton George, founder and president of Milton Jorge International, a consultant in marketing strategies. In an interview, the businessman explained the scenario of nanotechnology not only in Mexico but also in the world.
He noted that nanotechnology is highly competitive with other technologies to solve problems that are for the social benefit as the detection of diseases such as cancer.
In the first instance, mentioned that nanotechnology can be defined as "the manipulation of matter at the nanoscale", which means managing one item at an atomic level. The development of it began in 1950 with experiments in the levels of matter and in the last 20 years had a higher advance into Germany, USA, UK and Japan.
with polymer technology to make nanoscale devices can be spotted layers of smaller cells, which helps an earlier location of illnesses or diseases.
Another area in which it succeeds is in power with the management of photo cells, which help manage and build solar energy utilization. A common case is solar panels that generate electricity.
challenges of nanotechnology
According to Milton George, the challenges for the development of nanotechnology lie in several aspects: "The challenges that in their development are the management levels use toxic effect, the regulations, the combination of multi-disciplinary and regulatory standards define the product. "
Similarly, for him in Mexico are limitations to the forums for linking multidisciplinary groups are scarce. "It is difficult to integrate similar groups are not as they would modify the material scientists and physicians who treat people."
"A future challenge would be to see how nanotechnology affects system to a budget because it can reorganize even a country's economic structure. Furthermore, the development of this technology causes que lo usado en la actualidad se vuelva obsoleto y cambiarlo es un proceso que debe llevar mucho cuidado", explicó.
Las oportunidades
En cuanto a las oportunidades, el empresario entiende que su impacto en la economía puede ser grande. "Tan sólo en 2011 se espera que se inviertan 10 mil millones de dólares en desarrollo e investigación en nanomedicina y se desarrollen centros de investigación federal que modifiquen el presupuesto de un país".
"Los inversionistas no tienen el conocimiento de la oportunidad que trae consigo la nanotecnología; es el momento de que se involucren de manera rentable", dijo Milton Jorge y describió que la nanotecnología trae consigo dos aspectos investors are constantly looking for: the diversification of its investment portfolio and return on investment to develop technology that is more effective and therefore most in demand.
solutions to overcome setbacks in his opinion should meet "an ecosystem of an idea and research", ie to encourage the involvement of stakeholders in nanotechnology, such as toxicity experts, consultants, investors and fund managers who will assist government to raise an application to market.
Economist finds that Mexico could use the example of South Africa as a developing country forward in nanotechnology because they have a clear plan to build institutions, research laboratories and similar to those of our country.
"While in places like the United Kingdom have many NGOs who work on the subject, in Mexico there are very few and they need to support the country (....) are in research centers of the UNAM, IPN, CONACYT and many researchers and Mario Romero, who is chief of nanobiomedicine at the University of Texas, and we use them, "he said.
For the future, in 2018, Milton Jorge explains that displays more professionals dedicated to nanotechnology, "will bring a new generation of innovation issues the government (...) generará estructuras adecuadas y los inversionistas se acercarán a los centros de investigación (...) En México el sector más beneficiado sería el energético, en especial en el manejo y detección de petróleo".
Para febrero, Milton Jorge International organiza el NanoBioMedica Congreso y Expo 2011 que se llevará a cabo el 21 y 22 de febrero en el World Trade Center de la ciudad de México y que será el primero de su tipo en el país, será "un foro de integración, vinculación y educación donde se verá cómo afecta la nanotecnología a los negocios, cómo se comercializa en otros países y sus retos y barreras en diversos niveles."
En este It will bring courses and conferences in collaboration both domestically and abroad.
