== Key Players ==
=== Universities ===
* Universities play an important role in research and that's why it needs to be analyzed.
* Only 245 patents are filled by the universities research division.
* But companies are dependent on them for research activities.
* The analysis will give the insight of most involved university in terms of research on Carbon nanotubes.
[[Image:report2.jpg|700 px|center|Top Universities|thumb|Number of patents by universities in Carbon nanotubes area]]
=== Companies ===
* Large number of companies are now moving into this area.
* Number of startups are coming into the picture.
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#C0C0C0"|Top Companies
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#C0C0C0"|Number of patents filled
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|align = "center"|[http://www.foxconn.com/ Hon Hai Prec Ind Co]
|align = "center"|118
|-
|align = "center"|[http://www.samsung.com Samsung Electronics]
|align = "center"|77
|-
|align = "center"|[http://www.samsungsdi.com/contents/kr/main.jsp Samsung SDI Co. Ltd.]
|align = "center"|71
|-
|align = "center"|[http://www.sony.com Sony Corp.]
|align = "center"|70
|-
|align = "center"|[http://www.toray.com/ Toray Industry]
|align = "center"|69
|-
|align = "center"|[http://www.fujitsu.com/global/ Fujitsu Ltd.]
|align = "center"|68
|-
|align = "center"|[http://www.nec.com/ Nippon Electric Co.]
|align = "center"|64
|-
|align = "center"|[http://www.itri.org.tw/eng/research/nano/index.jsp Ind Tech Res Inst]
|align = "center"|62
|-
|align = "center"|[http://www.imm.ac.cn/en/index.html Nat Inst for Materia]
|align = "center"|59
|-
|align = "center"|Others
|align = "center"|58
|-
|}
== Market Research ==
=== Nanotechnology market ===
* Nanotechnology is a growing market.
* Lux Research (a market research company in nanotechnology) believes that market will reach from $13 billion in 2005 to $292 billion in 2010.
* In 2015 market for nano materials will reach to $340 billion and electronics market will reach to $300 billion.
* US nanotech funding has increased from $270 million to $850 million.
[[Image:lux1.jpg|400 px|center|thumb|Predictions of market by Lux research]]
[[Image:lux3.jpg|400 px|center|thumb|US funding]]
[[Image:lux2.jpg|400 px|center|thumb|Market by different categories]]
=== Carbon Nanotubes market ===
* Market size will increase from $6 million in 2004 to $1,070 million in 2014.
[[Image:marketresearch.jpg|300 px|center|thumb|Carbon nanotubes market estimate]]
== Published Papers ==
* Academic papers published on carbon nanotubes have been on the rise and patent filings have been keeping up with this upswing, says a review in the journal Science.
* According to the review, around 1,500 scientific papers were published in 2001 compared to about 1,100 in 2000 and around 700 in 1999.
[http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/archives/2002/09/materials_nanot.html?t=archive Source]
== SWOT analysis on nanotechnology ==