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Dr. Derek GillespieSenior Portfolio Manager
@DAGillespie
Electronic Systems ResearchSupporting excellent research and impactful ideas
Societal Trends for the Future
Societal Trends for the Future
Societal Trends for the Future
Explosive population growth from 1800s onwardso 1804: ~1 billion peopleo 2010: ~ 6.85 billion people
Projections for 2040 predict 9 billion people on Earth
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Population demographics are changing. By 2020:
o Increasingly ageing populationo ‘Generation Y’ increase
Over 35% of ‘Generation Y’ is predicted to live in India and China – almost
1 billion 15-34 year olds.
Societal Trends for the Future
Societal Trends for the Future
There are more mobile phone connections than there are people on the Earth.
Mobile data traffic is growing at 92% (CAGR).
By 2010, the number of text messages sent in one day exceeded the global population.
In 2012, there were over 4 billion YouTube videos streamed daily.
In one second on the internet, there are:• 463 photos uploaded to
Instragram.• 1024 calls made using
Skype.• 3935 tweets posted on
Twitter.• 11,574 files uploaded to
Dropbox.• 33,330 Google searches
carried out.• 46,330 videos watched
on YouTube.• 52,083 posts ‘Liked’ on
Facebook.
Societal Trends for the Future
“Global economic activity [as measured by GDP] has increased by a factor of forty since the start of the industrial revolution.”
IPCC (2001)
Robotics &Autonomous
Systems
Agri-TechSatellite
Networks Biotechnology NanotechnologyProduction
Technologies
The Transistor and the Integrated Circuit
• First transistor invented in 1947.• Miniaturization of the technology, in line with Moore’s Law, is
astounding – fast approaching the point whereby quantum considerations need to be taken into account.
• Complexity of integrated circuits has increased more than a billion-fold since the 1960s.
• The price of an individual transistor is now less than one millionth of the cost in the late 1960s.o Had the cost of automobiles fallen at the same rate, a new car
today would cost less than one pence.
The UK Electronic Systems Community
850,000
“At the heart of many societal advancements are the enabling technologies of electronic systems”
Warren EastESCO Executive Steering Group
People working on electronic systems in UK industry
£80Bn
Contribution to the UK economy, or 5.4% UK GDP
UK Universities: Excellence in Research
Excellence
Worldwide
UK
1%World population
5%World research spending
9%World research publications
12%World citations
14%World most-cited papers
EPSRC’s Electronics Research Portfolio
>£150M
EPSRC portfolio of active grants in electronic design and devices
125
Active programmes of research involving electronic design and
devices
EPSRC’s Electronics Research Portfolio
Over £150M of active grants investigating electronic devices and design
Photonic Materials &
Metamaterials~£108M
Optoelectronic Devices & Circuits~£107M
Electronic Structure
~£81M
Sensors & Instrumentation
~£43M
Magnetism & Magnetic Materials
~£68M
Architectures & Operating Systems~£57M
ICT Networks & Distributed
Systems~£100M
Digital Signal Processing
~£39M
Knowledge Base
Technology Base
System Integration
Societal Requirement
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The Research System
Knowledge Base
Technology Base
System Integration
Societal Requirement
Recent Major EPSRC Investments
Power Electronics – The EPSRC National Centre for Power Electronics
Many-Core Computing – EPSRC Programme Grants ‘PRiME’ and ‘PAMELA’
Plastic Electronics – EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large Area Electronics
EPSRC Programme Grant ‘The Multicorder’
– Sensing for Healthcare
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tyWhere could the community act?
Novel materials for electronic
applications
Quantum physics & electronics
Additive manufacturing
Communication devices & networks
Large area, flexible electronics
Power electronic devices
Neurological and bio-sciences
Bio-compatible electronics
Future information infrastructure
Distributed or integrated sensor
systems
Energy harvesting
Material security & sustainability
Autonomous systems & robotics
Silicon photonics
Energy sustainability
Novel healthcare technologies
‘Smart’ cities
Knowledge & Technology ‘Push’
Challenge & Application ‘Pull’
Grant Funding: Pathways to Impact
Funding to Facilitate Potential Impacts
Since 2009, applicants can ask for project-specific, impact-related costs as part of a grant proposal.
Applicants can ask for funding at the point of application, in order to provide the opportunities or required skills that allow the team to promote the potential impacts of their research.
To make use of this, applicants have to consider which impact activities or training they might require when planning the research proposal.
All costs must be outlined and justified, as with other requests for funding.
Grant Funding: Pathways to Impact
Funding to Facilitate Potential Impacts
Some specific examples of activities that could be requested are:
Secondments
Increased investigator time
Training activities
Employment of specialist staff
Marketing and publicity
Workshops, seminars and networking
Public engagement
Early-stage commercialisation exploration
Evidence shows that these resources are heavily under-used by applicants!
Institutions: Impact Acceleration Accounts
Accessible funding for tailored impact activities
Account-based funding given to universities on the basis of a peer-reviewed submission.
Allows institutions the flexibility to operate tailored schemes that facilitate increased likelihood of impact from research.
Retain key benefits of KTA & KTS Schemes:
Secondments
Proofs of Concept
Follow-On Funding
95%
Percentage of EPSRC portfolio, by value, covered by Impact Acceleration Accounts.
What Can We Do Together?
Grand Challenges in Silicon
Technology
There are challenges to be tackled.
Where does the UK electronic systems research community ‘want to go’?
What are the technologies of the future that need electronics at their heart?
Who needs to be engaged outside of the electronics community for the UK to take a lead?
Engage strongly with the eFutures network.
Work in partnership with the ESCO team to make the importance of electronics clear.
Partner with EPSRC – planning for the future starts now.
