Provided is a method for manufacturing a nanowire using stress-induced growth. The method includes: providing a substrate with an intermediate layer formed thereon; forming thin film on the intermediate layer, wherein the thin film made of material having more than 2×10−6/° C. of thermal expansion coefficient difference from the intermediate layer; inducing tensile stress due to the thermal expansion coefficient difference between the thin film and the substrate by performing a heat treatment on the substrate with the thin film formed; and growing single-crystalline nanowire of the material by inducing compressive stress at the thin film through cooling of the substrate.