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Growing efforts to assist SMEs to exploit R&D collaborative projects

Growing efforts to assist SMEs to exploit R&D collaborative ...

Handbooks aimed directly at SMEs are available to assist SMEs to maximise the benefits of involvement of participating in collaborative R&D projects. SMEs could begin to take the lead in new innovative product and process devel...

 
 
Universities close as research does not meet the needs of industry

Universities close as research does not meet the needs of in ...

Research interests of Universities do not meet the needs of Industry and there is a large divide between industries wanting to work with Academic institutions. This lack of technology transfer leads to industry-led research in ...

 
 
Development of new materials

Development of new materials

In the nuclear research, R&D also in other fields of science is necessary. It is expecially the material science and its progress in development of new materials, first used in other industries (e.g. in airplanes) and then appl...

 
 
Increasing shortage of qualified labor force

Increasing shortage of qualified labor force

With continuous ageing of population and low birth rate, the shortage of qualified labor in certain industrial sectors can become an increasingly wide issue, especially for the developed countries, but also for some of the deve...

 
 
A major dip in the supply of UK human resources in science and technology

A major dip in the supply of UK human resources in science a ...

That would have significant impact on industry, which would exacerbate the effects that are already being picked up

 
 
The gradual global warming.

The gradual global warming.

Major changes in the behaviour of ecosystems could be caused by the surface water warming by a few degrees. That could also cause an enormous burden for the power grid because water is used to cool practically the whole industr...

 
 
Networks become conscious and refuse to co-operate

Networks become conscious and refuse to co-operate

Industry loses control of their Intellectual Property as networks 'decide' to share information.

 
 
Universities shift priorities to a 'quantity' not 'quality' drive as profit is more important than research excellence

Universities shift priorities to a 'quantity' not 'quality' ...

University policy dictates that profit is more important than research excellence and the quality of research is diminished and poor results leads to a reduction in exploitable technology as the divide between Universities and ...

 
 
Molecular manufacturing turns into the next industrial revolution

Molecular manufacturing turns into the next industrial revol ...

The old vision of molecular nanotechnology (first introduced by Drexler) materializes. "universal nano-assemblers" or "nanofactories" build objects of practically any arbitrary size and complexity (including copies of themselve...

 
 
 
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