'Thin films & coatings' Roadmap - Nano Mahidol

Production Research & Development Phase (First applications)
After first demonstrator models and prototypes, initial, usually prohibitively expensive,
small amounts of products may be produced. At the same time, if these prove
successful, companies will seek to upscale production processes.
Generally at some point, demand increasing sufficiently to offset the investment
needed to start bulk production. This phase ends at that point when is clear and
possible to start this bulk production.
Mass production and incremental research (Mass production)
The final development phase, in this phase production has reached bulk amounts
and research focuses on incrementally improving the products.
After this phase even more phases can be discerned (market maturity, end of life
cycle, etc.) but these have not been taken into account when creating the following
figures.
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