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8 Findings and Recommendations
8 Findings and Recommendations
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.1 What these technologies have in common is a dependence on efficient manufacturing that currently requires improved technology, processes, tooling, and materials, as well as ongoing research.2 1. Performance characteristics: Flexible electronic devices will have performance characteristics that cannot be obtained from conventional rigid technologies.
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5 Brown, "Impact of a Flexible Form Factor for Displays and Lighting," in National Research Council, Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth. 6 TMR, Flexible Electronics Market -- Global Industry Size, Share, Trends, Analysis and Forecasts 2012–2018 (2013)
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, universities (including Arizona State, Clemson, Georgia Tech, and Kent State) , federal research laboratories, and regional nonprofit development organizations.
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European programs at the national and European Union levels: These programs focus on enhancing collaborations between academia and industry and provide mechanisms to diffuse intellectual property.14 i. Infrastructure for applied research: Europe enjoys not only a strong fundamental research base but also a formidable infrastruc ture for applied research in relevant technology areas, which in cludes inter alia Germany's Fraunhofer institutes, a new group of research centers in the United Kingdom, and world-class institutes such as IMEC in Belgium, the Holst Centre in the Netherlands, and Finland's VTT.
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They note, moreover, that retaining manufacturing capabilities is important given the high level of innovation and learning involved in manufacturing, which feeds back into research and development. These MIT reports cite an influential 2012 report by the National Research Council that finds that given the high priority and significant resources provided in leading nations on translational research, applications, and manufacturing of high-technology products, U.S.
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In Europe, for example, there are at present, more than 40 consortia of various sizes and focus that are advancing a variety of applications in flexible electronics.22 H. Collaboration among industry, universities, and government offers the best prospect for achieving the critical levels of investment and the ac celeration of new technology development that is required to develop a vibrant flexible electronics industry. Consortia can reduce individual company risk, spread costs, facilitate development of industry road maps and standards, provide a focal point for collaboration with public research organizations, enhance technology diffusion, and provide an early-stage basis for the development of industry supply chains.
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Dr. Vest noted that "in this age of increasingly cooperative innovation, and fast paced change, there are many opportunities to serve through ‘relevant' research and development that will complement, not distort, our core academic mission to bring new intellectual challenges to our faculty and students." 25 See Finding H on the merits of industry consortia and Finding I, which identifies industry-led consortia as a leading best practice in national innovation programs for flexible electronics.
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is an integrated partnership of fourteen user facilities, supported by NSF, providing unparalleled opportunities for nanoscience and nanotechnology research. The network provides extensive support in nanoscale fabrication, synthesis, characterization, modeling, design, computation, and hands-on training in an open hands-on environment available to all qualified users." Accessed at |
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: Funding to support prototyping capabilities to help new and incumbent local small- and medium-sized companies launch new products should be given a priority.29 E. Agency mission needs should help drive demand for flexible electronics technologies, while lowering costs, improving capabilities, and contrib uting to the development of a skilled workforce.30 1. Market pull: The uncertainties surrounding "market pull" for emerg ing flexible electronics technologies remain a significant hurdle to the establishment of U.S.-based manufacturing capability for these tech nologies.
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Consumer applications: The vast range of potential applications for flexible electronics technologies suggests that public procurement opporunities exist not only for the military, but also for products in t fields such as health care, power generation, environmental protection, and transportation. While ultimately the competitiveness of the U.S.
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