Final Report Summary - NANOFUTURES (A cross-ETP Coordination Initiative on nanotechnology)
- delivering a focused implementation plan up to 2020 within a longer term horizon of actions (> 2025);
- addressing European cross-cutting key nodes in terms of cross-sectorial research, technology and innovation issues;
- covering broad socio-economic challenges to the implementation and commercialisation of sustainable and safe nanotechnology enabled solutions;
- showing a market-driven value chain approach with a set of tech and non-tech actions along the identified nano-enabled value chains.
NANOFUTURES decided to have a value chain approach, in order to contribute to bridge the current gap between nanotechnology knowledge and successful commercialization of nano-enabled products. The approach resulted in three roadmapping layers: 5 key nodes and 7 nano-enabled value chains, 27 examples of lead markets and a set of final nano-enabled products, cross- cutting actions that overarch the roadmap.
Dissemination and networking activities were also conducted resulting in:
- an updated project website (please see http://www.nanofutures.eu online), containing user-friendly information, innovation services and educational material. In the private area of the website, platform members can interact for example to find collaborations, business, and / or project opportunities by direct contact with other members or by creating polls and forum topics;
- periodic promotional leaflets and newsletters, documents with information on relevant successful cases related to nanotechnology, innovative industrial associations mapping, existing infrastructures, press notes;
- Web 2.0 tools (e.g. NANOFUTURES Twitter account, LinkedIn group and Youtube channel); LinkedIn Group counts now with more than 300 members;
- dissemination material (booth, general project presentation, slogans etc.) for the public and to be used at dissemination events;
- participation to several events and conferences, also in coordination with other nano-related projects and initiatives such as NANOCOM project or EuroNanoForum 2011 and Industrial Technologies 2012 conferences. A broad communication flow that involves more than 100 regional and local nano-networks / clusters;
- the launching of NANOFUTURES lighthouses as local contact points in Italy, Finland, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Romania, Switzerland, Latvia, Poland, Turkey and Sweden and national mirror platforms related to NANOFUTURES: the Italian platform of nanotechnology in Italy and NANOFUTURES Romania already started, while others, e.g. NANOFUTURES Poland, Swiss and Greece, are under development.
More info: http://www.NANOFUTURES.info/structure.