Expanded Cross-Industry Survey of Nanomanufacturing Commercialization Trends and Barriers in the U.S.

这项扩大的跨行业调查/研究的主要目标是评估和汇编关键的发展，商业化和集成趋势，为参与快速发展的纳米制造行业的公司提供更大的横截面，估计美国约有800家公司（根据Small Times杂志的行业汇编）。 NCMS的目标是从北美的传统制造业、新纳米制造业和其他初创公司中获得至少300个具有代表性的行业回复。NCMS将尽最大努力通过在线调查问卷扩大行业信息，并确定新的成功案例和纳米制造商业化应用中正在出现的努力。 NCMS将首先向其公司成员（航空航天、汽车、机床、电子和先进材料等150多个组织）分发调查报告，然后在2004年春季和夏季向整个纳米制造业分发，数据库将由NSF提供。 国家CMS还将通过其网络出版物、定期通讯和联盟更广泛地传播调查征集信息，以鼓励参与调查，并与主要媒体、区域和技术商业组织联系，以鼓励回应。

The main objective of this expanded cross-industry survey/study is to assess and compile key development, commercialization and integration trends for a significantly larger cross-section of companies involved in the rapidly evolving nanomanufacturing industry, which are estimated to number around 800 companies in the US (per an industry compilation by Small Times magazine). NCMS is aiming to obtain at least 300 representative industry responses from established conventional manufacturing industry, new nanomanufacturing industries, and other start-up companies in North America. NCMS will make its best efforts to amplify industry information via an on-line survey questionnaire, as well as identify new success stories and emerging in-progress efforts in applications of nanomanufacturing towards commercialization. NCMS will first distribute the survey to its corporate membership (numbering over 150 organizations from aerospace, automotive, machine-tool, electronics and advanced materials) and then to the nanomanufacturing industry at large during the spring and summer of 2004, for which the database will be provided by NSF. NCMS will also disseminate the survey solicitation more widely through its web publications, periodic newsletters and alliances in order to encourage participation in the survey, as well as contact leading media, regional and technical business organizations to encourage responses.