Roadmap
What is the Formulation Technology Roadmap and what is it for?
A technology roadmap helps companies and organisations plan for the future. By taking into account a wide variety of societal trends and market drivers it helps make sense of a complex world and provide valuable direction for strategy development as well as for shorter-term activities.
Formulation Technology is complex – it underpins many different industry sectors and requires a broad range of technical competencies. At Intelligent Formulation we have held developed the Formulation Technology Roadmap with the assistance of individuals from companies across different formulating sectors as well as from academics.
By evaluating the important societal, technological, environmental, political and economic drivers the Formulation Technology Roadmap can help you to:
- Provide focus for your R&D effort and keep you ahead in the knowledge game
- Identify current and future product trends and opportunities, including those happening outside your own sector
- Identify common areas of interest for collaborative partnerships
At Intelligent Formulation we’ve used the Formulation Technology Roadmap ourselves. We were able to take its outputs and define seven priority technical themes to provide focal points for our own programme of workshops, webinars and collaborative project activities.
Further details on the Formulation Technology Roadmap can be found in the Partners area of our website and our priority technical themes are described in our blog article.
Evaluating Important Drivers
By evaluating the important societal, technological, environmental, political and economic drivers the Formulation Technology Roadmap can help you to:
- Provide focus for your R&D effort and keep you ahead in the knowledge game
- Identify current and future product trends and opportunities, including those happening outside your own sector
- Identify common areas of interest for collaborative partnerships
At Intelligent Formulation we’ve used the Formulation Technology Roadmap ourselves. We were able to take its outputs and define seven priority technical themes to provide focal points for our own programme of workshops, webinars and collaborative project activities.
Our priority technical themes are described in our blog article.
News
Formulation Awards 2011 - Winners Announced
The winners in each of the five categories have been announced and all the presentations are now available to download
Grant for Research and Development: innovation support for small and medium enterprises
The Technology Strategy Board recently launched a new Grant for Research and Development programme designed specifically for individual small to medium enterprises.
KCMC’s Materials Chemistry Incentive Scheme goes nationwide
The Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC) is taking its R&D Incentive Scheme nationwide. The Scheme offers qualifying companies the equivalent of up to £10,000 towards materials chemistry collaborative research projects in the KCMC partner institutions the universities of Bolton, Liverpool and Manchester and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) at Daresbury.
