Tuesday September 7th, 2010: 15:45 – 17:15 & 17:45 – 19:15

The purpose of this session is to highlight industrial vision and trends that can lead to employment and growth in traditional and emerging sectors. The whole development chain from modelling to industrial fabrication will be covered.

How can research foster growth and employment and create societal benefits?

What is required for scientific achievements to become industrially viable technologies?

Where may new European industries emerge?

How will new technologies, such as those enabled by new (nano)sciences, affect future products and our way of living?

From research to industrial and societal impact: what are the main barriers and success factors? 

Session C.2.

Chair

• Andrea Reinhardt, MINAM&Nanofutures - microTEC Gesellschaft für Mikrotechnologie mbH (Germany)

Speakers

• Klaus Sommer, Bayer (Germany)
• Alaisdair McLeod, Scottish Government (Scotland)
• Olivier Carnal, Roll Solar (Switzerland)

Session C.3.

Chair

• Manfred Diehl, Umicore (Germany)

Speakers

• Dominique Neerinck, Chief Technology Officer and Group Executive Vice President Industrial Coatings,  Member of the Bekaert Group Executive, Bekaert (Belgium) (Belgium)
• Vito Lambertini, CRF (Italy)
• Javier Gravalos, Acciona (Spain)