Manufacturing Technology - The Bendable Opportunity

A simply stunning video report here from the FT which introduces the work of an innovative UK manufacturer - Smartkem - which is looking to innovate in the emerging printed electronics sector.

At our BUSS4 CPD courses on UK manufacturing we highlight the opportunity provided by nanotechnology. Printed electronics is a great example of this and, as the video illustrates, the opportunities for product innovation look very exciting, for example in the wearable electronic sector.

This is precisely the kind of high value-added manufacturing that the UK ought to be focusing on in order to increase the contribution of manufacturing to the economy.

Taking technology from the laboratory to the marketplace is not easy and the risks are huge. In order for businesses like Smartkem to succeed, it needs the support of investors.