Cambridge NanoTech (CNT) is an intriguing example of how an effective university research study job was utilized to construct a little scale company which makes and develops research study devices for a brand-new class of chain reactions called Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD). CNT's company design is especially charming considering that the university researchers/founders established an item that was particularly implied to serve other university scientists instead of attempting to right away jump to industrial, high volume production applications.
Their item was particularly developed to be low expense, simple to utilize, versatile, and to have extremely brief shipment times which made it extremely appealing to university scientists running big research study tasks (normally on the order of millions of dollars/year). In the year 2010, the business is lucrative however is dealing with enhanced competitors and the requirement to grow its company.
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