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Towards a Roadmap for Engineering & Upscaling

Enginering & Upscaling is any activity that is required to take a technology to Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) required for commercial products in the relevant markets.

Fragmentation in Europe is seen as a key barrier to fulfilling the potential of engineering and upscaling in industry and a barrier to the uptake of promising results of collaborative research projects funded under the FP7 programme.

In 2014, the European Commission RTD Unit in “Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies” therefore launched a cluster initiative with the following aims.

  • Probe current activities for completeness and identify gaps.
  • Help projects to support their individual and common innovation and exploitation activities.
  • Identify obstacles to engineering & upscaling and pathways to overcome them.
  • Support policy making.

With support from Goldbeck Consulting and Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology a survey of more than 100 projects included in the Cluster was conducted in 2014 and a workshop was held in February 2015 in Brussels.

Towards a Roadmap for Engineering and Upscaling,a discussion document of key topics for Engineering & Upscaling has now been published. It summarises findings from the Cluster survey and workshop and identifies barriers, requirements and potential actions in the following areas:

  • Characterisation and testing for engineering and upscaling
  • Pilot lines and manufacturing/processing facilities
  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Life Cycle Analysis
  • Standards, Certification and Regulatory approval
  • Management of the emerging product towards commercialisation
  • Funding and Financing
  • Brokerage and infrastructure supporting industry and academia relationship.
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