Nanotechnology development in Malaysia: current status and implementation strategy

Nanotechnology development offers the promise of advances within and connections across many disciplines-biology, chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering. determination of the critical success factors in nanotechnology development and industrialization strategy in developing countries is very crucial. among all the research done, there are several factors that need to be taken into consideration while implying the nanotechnology strategy in developing countries, in which are: economic and political, human resource, technical issue, operational and finan cial issue, knowledge and technology partnership.