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Microelectronics started its development approximately at the same time as the ICOHTEC was founded: the birth of microelectronics is usually associated with 1959 in which John Kilby (USA) demonstrated the invented semiconductor monolithic integrated circuit (IC). Subsequent progress of microelectronics has been an expanding boom: the production of IC, coupling dozens of transistors, began in 1962, and in 1965 the large integrated circuits with 1000 elements on the chip appeared. The creation of microprocessors (Intel, 1971) along with the subsequent development of nanotechnology contributed to overcoming circuit limitations, and by the year 2000 the fantastic milestone – a billion transistors on a standard silicon chip - has been reached. The progress of microelectronics has facilitated the development of information technologies, automation of production, and in essence, has extended man's intellectual power. However, in literature one can find many works that contain criticism of the existing approach to research and the organization of production in the field of microelectronics. W. Patrick McCray in his paper “Will Small Be Beautiful?” considered the “nano-utopian visions” to be a way of convincing lawmakers to fund research in nanotechnology. A work “Nanotechnology and the Developing World” by Fabio Salamanca-Buentello with co-authors argues that the funding agencies must help ensure that nanotechnology is used responsibly by prompting the idea that it meet the needs of the entire world’s population and not just the needs of the wealthy. The complex relationship between society and technology, coupled with an incomplete knowledge of what effects of innovations will be, mean that scientists and managers must be better equipped to realize values that are essential for human being.