We are frequently left scratching our heads by some of the antics in the Nanoworld, and many of them coincide with Nanosys. The Lazarus like Red Herring ( OK so the brand was picked up by a European company, Dasar, a while back and is being relaunched), has picked Nanosys as one of its top 100 innovators, but we are left wondering why exactly?
Is it because the new staff at Red Herring have a nanotech quota to fill, or perhaps the innovation was related to the excuses made following the failed IPO (It was the market, not the lack of products, revenue or strategy)? Or maybe it was a case of just picking some talked about nanotech companies and bung them in? Or maybe it was the effort of finding 100 innovative companies these days? Or maybe its the old give a company an award and make them pay to receive it at a conference trick?
As with most exam papers, its not the result that score the marks but how it was arrived at: reasoning versus a wild guess.