单单在美国，预计有明确目标的纳米技术危险性研究必须要有的注资水平每年在5千万到1亿美元之间，这是2005年投资额的5到10倍。
In the US alone, estimates of the necessary funding levels for goal-oriented nanotechnology risk research are between $50 million and $100 million per year – five to ten times the amount invested in 2005.