Industry Insight – Nanotechnology

Zurich, June 22, 2009 – Zurich Financial Services Group’s (Zurich) latest issue of Industry Insight, its online consumer magazine, focuses on Nanotechnology. Nanotechnology refers to the methods of manipulating atoms and molecules to create new structures at scales measured in billionths of a meter.

This issue of Industry Insight takes stock of nanotechnology today – its enormous commercial potential, the unique risk challenges nanotechnology poses, the regulatory environment for nanotechnology, and a look at what Zurich is doing to help customers understand and manage the potential risk.

The magazine is available under the following link:
http://www.zurich.com/main/insight/perspective/industryinsight

Direct links to articles:

• At the leading edge
  Zurich’s thought leadership on nanotechnology
• No small thing
  The enormous potential of nano
• The kings of small things
  The regulatory environment for nanotechnology development
• Large risks from small things?
  Myth and reality of nano-risks

For further information on Zurich’s thought leadership activities, please click on the following link: http://www.zurich.com/insight