How nanotechnology has been tackled in UK Foresight - presentation for Moscow conference Dec 2008

1. Ian Miles Manchester Institute of Innovation Research [email_address] 5 December 2008 Nanotechnology Foresight in the UK NANOTECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL FORUM 4-5 December 2008

4. Focusing on Nano … . Special Report at outset of 2 nd cycle: Opportunities for Industry in the Application of Nanotechnology

5. A Transformed Website The Second Cycle 2000-2002      TF          CP CP  sectoral  thematic, Many Tas k Forces

12. Third Cycle of UK Foresight Projects Much earlier work still available here http://www.foresight.gov.uk 2002 – onwards

16. Success Scenario Workshop - 2001, Nanotechnology (for DGRC) Actions and responsible parties Aspirational SUCCESS SCENARIO workshop Indicators of realisation and progress Credible, optimistic Expert consensus if possible Informed by benchmarking and other inputs “ Stretch target”; Sharing visions, improving understanding; Better indicators of progress; Action points Specification of feasible + desirable future Background inputs (inc framework scenarios, SWOT, etc)

17. Focus on 6 Application Areas for Nanotechnology Informatics Drug Delivery Systems Tissue Engineering, medical implants & devices Novel Materials Sensors and actuators Instrumentation, tooling and metrology N

18. Basic Roadmaps – e.g. Informatics For each area, UK bench-marked against other countries, and a basic vision of future produced

24. Impact - a new policy

25. Impact muted? In our view, the Taylor Report provided a comprehensive, ambitious, affordable and achievable strategy for the development of UK nanotechnology capability: it provided a … blueprint which the DTI could have taken forward and implemented in full. …We question the need for the industrial survey commissioned by the DTI three months after the Taylor Report had been published: it did not add significantly to the body of knowledge … necessary to inform the framework of future funding. The DTI could have responded to the Taylor Report without this unnecessary delay. … In our view, whilst the Taylor Report has not been completely rejected, there is no doubt that its central thrust has been lost: it is not being implemented in the manner recommended. Instead of the immediate focus being on the establishment of at least two nanofabrication facilities, the available money is being disseminated widely between supporting applied research and the further development of a number of existing small micro and nanotechnology facilities. Select Committee on Science and Technology Fifth Report 2004 DTI strategy was to form a Micro and Nano Technology Network, despite explicit proposal to develop UK strategy & facilities for nanotechnology

27. NIA Model Complexity NIA Forecast of Emerging Nanotechnologies Paul Reip & Steffi Friedrichs June 2007

28. NIA Model Complexity Autonomous Motive Sensing Physical Chemical

29. NIA Model “futurised”

30. NIA Model Populated

31. Royal Society report Reviewed Science and applications: Nanomaterials: Nanometrology; Electronics, optoelectronics, and ICT; Bio-nanotechnology and nanomedicine; Nanomanufacturing and industrial application of nanotechnologies incl. Fabrication techniques; Bottom-up manufacturing; Top-down manufacturing; Precision Engineering; The chemicals industry; The ICT industry; Resource management and environmental issues Health and Safety, Social and Ethical Issues And stressed Public Consultation and Dialogue and Regulatory Responses Extensive government response

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