Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

• Supervising or providing technical direction to technicians engaged in nanotechnology researching or production.
• Installing nanotechnology production equipment at customer or manufacturing sites.
• Contribute written material or data for grant or patent applications.
• Producing images or measurements, using tools or techniques such as atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, optical microscopy, particle size analysis, or zeta potential analysis.
• Preparing detailed verbal or written presentations for scientists, engineers, project managers, or upper management.
• Preparing capability data, training materials, or other documentation for transferring of processes to production.
• Developing or modifying wet chemical or industrial laboratory experimental techniques for nanoscale using.
• Collecting or compiling nanotechnology researching or engineering data.
• Inspecting or measuring thin films of carbon nanotubes, polymers, or inorganic coatings, using a variety of techniques or analytical tools.