Roadmap 2012

Challenges such as health care, higher standards of living and quality consumer goods, increasing energy costs, depleting resources, and employment are the driving force to develop and exploit key enabling technologies that will facilitate new innovative products and systems. MicroNanoManufacturing Technologies are expected to support the development of next generation products, consequently the motivation for this roadmap is to present the summary of the strategies/feedback of the micro-nano manufacturing related community regarding technological and non-technological bottlenecks. Therefore, it includes the results of (i) a survey with European Technology Platforms, (ii) evaluation of workshops with regional clusters and (iii) brainstorming events with transnational clusters. All of these actions were performed by the European project MINAM2.0 "Paving the ground for the second generation of a highly effective, application oriented Micro-Nano Manufacturing community in Europe".