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71 Feasibility study for an Estonian Materials Technology Programme 3. Materials technology abroad: co-operation and competition Based on a study called “Materials Research – a Proposal for a National Strategy” Denmark defined four high priority areas for future materials technology development: Nanotechnology and functional nanostructures Microsystems Biocompatible materials Functional polymer materials Currently the country is focusing more on thematic areas in its strategic prioritisation. The thematic areas including materials technology are called “Energy, climate and environment” as well as “Production and technology”. They can be considered as an evolved version of the materials technology programme as they focus more on finding solutions to society challenges at large rather than focusing on tight areas of technology 76 . On the other hand, Denmark has accepted the fact that a small country cannot nor should be a world leader in all strategic growth technologies and a significant amount of co-operation with leading international partners is needed. Moreover, the research should be conducted in a way that Danish companies can adopt them in their products and production processes. Concrete examples of the thematic areas of Danish research are the focused efforts in energy technology funding. In 2010, more than 100 million Euros were invested in energy technology research. The effort can already be seen in the EU FP7-Energy and Intelligent Energy statistics where the Danish share has exceeded 8% while the country contributes less than 2% in the EU budget. 77 3.2.7 Europe in general The FP7 NMP framework programme is one of the biggest RTD program in Europe funding the field of nanomaterials and new production technologies with over 400 million Euros annually for the years 2007-2013. The amount is expected to grow, going from 380 million in 2007 to 620 million in 2013. “NMP aims to support Europe’s drive to be the world-leading innovator and supplier of advanced materials adding high value and a competitive advantage to industrial products in key sectors. The present programme is designed to tackle the multiple challenges currently facing European industry, with accelerated demand for higher quality and higher added-value products, rapidly increasing competitiveness from Asia and elsewhere and the need for restructuring, particularly of the energy and transport sectors brought on by the recent financial crisis. New and advanced materials play a central role in supporting many of the priority areas in FP7, particularly health, ICT, transport and energy.” 79 In November 2009, the NMP Expert group of 25 experts published a position paper on the future of RTD of NMP for the period of 2010-2015. 79 In addition to making future recommendations for the program the paper also presents the present state-of-art in respective NMP fields. The paper emphasises the importance of “cross-cutting and enabling technologies, including the development of new characterisation and instrumentation methods, modelling and understanding of complexity, nonlinearity and functionality both by design and through bottom-up approaches”. The paper believes that technology push and industry pull both need equal consideration. Whilst stimulating the creativity of Europe’s research scientists at the fundamental level, clear aims regarding industrial application should also be defined. To ensure rapid and effective technology transfer to industry, particular attention should be paid to start-ups and SMEs, especially their patenting issues. Also the process of turning research results into products needs acceleration through different support mechanisms. The paper also lists several research priority areas under the following themes Life Sciences and Health Care Energy: Conversion, Storage and Efficient Use Environment (Air, Water and Soil) Chemicals, Consumer and Household Goods Construction and Housing Food & Agro-Biotechnology Fibers, Fabrics and Textiles Transport: Aircraft and Automotives Civil Security 76 RESEARCH2015 – A BASIS FOR PRIORITISATION OF STRATEGIC RESEARCH 77 Annual report on Danish energy research programmes
72 Feasibility study for an Estonian Materials Technology Programme 3. Materials technology abroad: co-operation and competition According to the state-of-art review of the paper, there are a number of indicators that materials research will become a battle ground for delivering the benefits of industrial technologies: The EU is world-leading in advanced materials sales (~80% >US and Japan) Strategic investment by the US, Japan and China in materials research programmes are on a competitive level Strategic investment in large facilities by the US, EU, Japan and China to support materials research programmes Bibliometric studies of nanotechnology scientific publications Principle locus on industrial nanotechnology R&D investment Largest number of submissions to NMP calls per year in FP7 In 2008, EU research spending on nanotechnology from all public sources was $2.6 billion (approx 30% of the world total). 78 The strongest nanotech public sector funding programmes are in Germany, France and the UK with Germany being the biggest with approximately 400 million Euros annually (ref2). Private R&D investment amounts to only $1.7 billion in Europe compared to $2.7 in the US and $2.8 billion in Asia. 79 In Europe there is currently one Era-Net in materials technology working under the NMP-programme. Altogether 13 countries or regions are participating in this MATERA Era-net including Finland, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Israel, and Latvia. MATERA offers participants 1) a simplified way to initiate and participate in R&D projects at the European level 2) an opportunity to easily access international know-how 3) an opportunity to integrate into international value chains. Matera funds joint research projects of partners in the countries. Funding comes from the local governments, EU-funds the joint activities of the network. Altogether the Matera ERA-Net has launched six calls during its existence. The final call was in early 2011 with the goal to: launch transnational, interdisciplinary, innovative, R&D projects related to materials science and engineering narrow the gap between basic materials research and applied problems shorten the time-to-market of scientific outcomes 3.2.8 Russia During the last 5-10 years, Russia has become significantly more active in the area of nano and advanced materials technologies. There is a huge research base available in the country and the state is currently driving technology transfer activities through organisations such as RUSNANO. Russia has recently established several programmes for regulating the science and technology development, two of which are most relevant for materials sciences: National Technological Base (2007-2011) Development of Nanoindustry Infrastructure in the Russian Federation (2008-2010) These programmes together correspond to approximately 1.5 billion EUR of funding 79 and in addition, RUS- NANO is investing close to 1 billion EUR annual in nanotechnology industry development in Russia. Nanotechnology has been identified as a key future technology in Russia and it is in close relationship with materials technologies in e.g. RUSNANO projects. The projects financed by RUSNANO are divided into 6 clusters with example projects similar to Estonian competences: Solar energy and energy efficiency Thin film solar panels Lithium-ion batteries Nanostructured materials Novel light composite materials Flexible polymer packaging materials Medicine and biotechnology Engineering and metalworking Metal-cutting tools with nanostructured coatings Wear-resistant products made of nanostructured ceramics and metal Nanostructured non-metallic coatings 78 NMP EXPERT ADVISORY GROUP (EAG) POSITION PAPER ON FUTURE RTD ACTIVITIES OF NMP FOR THE PERIOD 2010 – 2015 79 Dmitry Filatov OECD presentation
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