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Vol.13, No.3, August 2024. ISSN: 2217-8309 eISSN: 2217-8333
TEM Journal
TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT, INFORMATICS Association for Information Communication Technology Education and Science |
Impact of State Intervention During the Pandemic Crisis on the Implementation of Nanotechnological Innovations in the Czech Republic
David Svoboda, Jiří Kraft, Julie Holendova
© 2024 David Svoboda, published by UIKTEN. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Citation Information: TEM Journal. Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 2297-2309, ISSN 2217-8309, DOI: 10.18421/TEM133-57, August 2024.
Received: 27 March 2024. Revised: 11 July 2024.
Abstract:
The article deals with the issue of state interventions during the pandemic in the Czech Republic and the role of nanotechnology, which played an important role in increasing the production capacity of personal protective equipment. Nanotechnology has been rarely used in the long term for the filtration of bacteria and viruses due to its relatively high cost compared to conventional technologies that are commonly used to filter bacteria and viruses. Due to the positive demand shock and therefore the increased price, nanofibres became much more widely used in respirators and hoods. However, the global shortage of protective equipment, in addition to the high demand, also caused government intervention. These may have adversely affected the potential for global implementation of nanofibres in respirators. Based on empirical research, the aim of this paper is to identify the innovation environment during the pandemic and the interventions that disrupted the innovation environment in nanotechnology.
Keywords – Innovations, pandemic, intervention, internationalization, nanotechnology, respirators. |
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