5. What Do I Know?
• Former Engineer at European
Space Agency
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6. What Do I Know?
• Former Engineer at European
Space Agency
• Serial Entrepreneur
2
7. What Do I Know?
• Former Engineer at European
Space Agency
• Serial Entrepreneur
• Chair / Chief Advisor of
Several National Funding
Bodies
2
8. What Do I Know?
• Former Engineer at European
Space Agency
• Serial Entrepreneur
• Chair / Chief Advisor of
Several National Funding
Bodies
• World Economic Forum
Emerging Technologies
Council / Tech Pioneers
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9. What Do I Know?
• Former Engineer at European
Space Agency
• Serial Entrepreneur
• Chair / Chief Advisor of
Several National Funding
Bodies
• World Economic Forum
Emerging Technologies
Council / Tech Pioneers
• Advise Governments & Private
Clients
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16. 5000 Years of Science
• We have been observing
the world for 5000 years
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17. 5000 Years of Science
• We have been observing
the world for 5000 years
• Significantly changing it
for 100 years
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18. 5000 Years of Science
• We have been observing
the world for 5000 years
• Significantly changing it
for 100 years
• Understanding our
actions for 20 years
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19. Materials Have Shaped Our
Culture & Economy
10,000 BC
1000 BC 0 1800 1900’s 2000 2010
Stone
& Wood Iron Cement Steel Synthetic Biology
Polymers
Composites Nanotechnology
Adapted from Herrmann, W. Chem. Eng. Technol. 21(7), 549 (1998)
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20. Control Over Materials
Materials Have Always Been Vital
to Humanity
• Clothing,
• Heating, hunting tools
• Coal, iron, oil, copper
• Semiconductors
• Satellites
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34. 10 Years of Nanotech
Household Cleaners Sporting Equipment
Food Displays Drug Delivery
Insulation
Paints
Sunscreen Water Treatment
Construction
Cosmetics Lighting Filtration
Anti Corrosion Data Storage
Textiles
Computer Memory
Coatings
Catalysis Tissue Engineering
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41. “Anyone talking about trillion dollar markets,
thousands of start-ups and billions of dollars of
VC money is missing the point of
nanotechnology.
...most of the effects will not be called nano, and
they will be off the radar of most nano pundits &
gurus"
- Tim Harper 2003
82. Addressing the Challenge
Sustained & responsible technology innovation is the
only way that the world has supported six billion
people and will continue to sustain 9 billion people by
2050.
‣ WEF Global Agenda Council on Emerging
Technologies
92. Profiting From The
Challenge
• Sustainability is on everyones
agenda now
93. Profiting From The
Challenge
• Sustainability is on everyones
agenda now
• Increasing regulatory pressure
94. Profiting From The
Challenge
• Sustainability is on everyones
agenda now
• Increasing regulatory pressure
• Nano/bio/IT convergence is a
once a century opportunity
97. Finally
Nanotechnologies and biosciences will
be as important to the 21st Century
as oil, polymers and semiconductors
were to the 20th Century
We have the tools, lets use them
wisely
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