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Published online 20 October 2009 | Nature 461, 1036-1037 (2009) | doi:10.1038/4611036a

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High hopes for Russia's nanotech firms

But an ambitious government initiative has been slow to incubate a domestic high-tech industry.

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Russia's investment in the very small is about to get bigger. The government announced this month that it is injecting 318 billion roubles (US$11 billion) into its ambitious plan to develop and commercialize nanotechnologies.

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