出版社：AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law
摘要：The “knowledge era” has witnessed a cascade of technological developments where each technology has significantly contributed in providing impetus for emerging technologies. Nanotechnology is one such novel and revolutionary branch of technology, where reduction in size has demonstrated magnificent results. Intersection with the field of biotechnology has given rise to nanobiotechnology. Involvement of living forms and the potential to meet human necessities have raised issues that are unique to nanobiotechnology. Nanobiotechnology has been defined in several ways, for example as “an interdisciplinary field of research and development that integrates engineering, physical sciences, and biology through the development of very small physical and biological devices using biomimetically inspired nano-fabrication techniques”.1 “Nanobiotechnology encompasses a wide range of applications on the molecular scale at the interface between the chemical, physical and biological sciences.”2
