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6 Summary and Conclusion
6 Summary and Conclusion
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to support not only research but also private sector innovation. Nanotechnology, which encompasses nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, is multidisciplinary and has potential to improve existing products 1 resident's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 2014, Report to the President and P Congress on the Fifth Assessment of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, Executive Office of the President, October, https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/pcast/docsreports.
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The Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology Subcommit tee, with support from the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, should inform the basic research community about these programs and also communicate to federal program managers about how investment in advancement of nano-enabled technologies can provide opportunities for achieving their program and agency missions. The NNI established Nanotechnology Signature Initiatives (NSIs)
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Finding 2.4: XPrize, InnoCentive, and other organizations have well-developed, proven strategies for managing innovation incentive prize competitions using cash awards and well-defined procedures to engage a diverse array of people and organizations, stimulate additional spending, and produce results. Recommendation 2.4: NNI agencies should use innovation incentive prizes to engage a broader community to solve technical problems, particularly those underlying grand challenges and other national initiatives.
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Recommendation 3.1: The Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology Subcommittee should prepare a report that provides a self-consistent record of the NNI nanomanufacturing program, the status relative to the recom mendations of the 2007 National Science and Technology Council report Manufacturing at the Nanoscale: Report of the NNI Workshops 2002-2004, and the NNI plans to move forward. Finding 3.2: Basic research programs focused on nanomanufacturing have been a strength of the NNI.
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Recommendation 3.4: The National Institutes of Health should lead the de velopment of a roadmap, in collaboration with the nanomedicine industry, to identify technical barriers to scaling up the manufacture of nanomedi cines, as well as areas in which research is needed to overcome those barriers. Together the NNI agencies have created a geographically distributed set of user facilities that provides the broad nanoscale science and engineering community access to a range of characterization and synthesis tools and facilities.
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As a result, there is a real risk of obsolescence of the physical and computation infrastructure available to the nanoscience and technology research enterprise, and a corresponding decrease in the user value. Recommendation 4.2: The National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, in concert with other NNI agencies with instrumentation pro grams, should identify funding mechanisms for acquiring and maintaining state-of-the-art equipment and computational resources to sustain leading edge capabilities at their nanoscale science and engineering user facilities.
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NIH should expand the Nano technology Characterization Laboratory to address nanomaterials being devel ped for those other medical applications. o Recommendation 4.3b: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Envi ronmental Protection Agency should join with the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to support development of centralized nanobiotechnological characterization facilities, at the Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory or elsewhere, to serve as a trusted source of information on potential environmental, health, and safety implications of nanomaterials.
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Recommendation 5.2a: The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, working with the Department of Education and the National Science Foun dation, should engage with states that have incorporated nanotechnology into the K-12 curriculum to develop a document outlining the approaches taken and make it widely available, including to individuals or groups seek ing to improve K-12 science education in other states. Recommendation 5.2b: The National Science Foundation and the Depart ment of Education should work with states that have incorporated nano technology into the K-12 curriculum to identify metrics and track the outcomes of the approach taken by those states to include nanotechnology in the K-12 curriculum.
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