Building A Stronger Future

21 Oct IAE Response to Consultation paper for SSTI

Irish Academy of Engineering (IAE) 2015 IAE response to Irish Government’s Consultation Paper for Successor to National Strategy for Science Technology and Innovation.
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21 Oct Technology Outlook

Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) 2015 Switzerland has a significant industrial sector today, which contributes almost 20 percent to the country’s gross domestic product. If we look at the next five to ten years, however, new technologies and processes are already emerging, the mastery...
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21 Oct Materials Research as an Innovation and Growth Driver

Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) 2016 Research in new materials and conveying this research to the product development departments of private companies is a basic condition for growth in a large number of industrial companies. This report focuses on the factors which are considered...
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21 Oct Technical Education and Capacity building for the Raw Materials Industry in Greenland

Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) 2016 The purpose of this report is to identify the need for enhancing the capacity in relation to technical education and for pinpointing related focus areas which may act as a lever to ensure a substantial Greenlandic yield of...
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21 Oct Duty of Care and Cybersecurity

2015 The present report is an exploratory investigation of whether contributory parties other than criminals and private individuals may have legal duties to help combat cybercrime. The scope is limited to four jurisdictions (The Netherlands, U.S.A., Brazil, and Czech Republic) and three specific topics of...
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21 Oct Innovation Indicator 2015

National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) 2016 The innovation indicator, which is published annually, is a comparative study on innovation strength. It captures the conditions for innovation in Germany as an industrial location and compares them in a ranking in the areas of industry,...
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21 Oct Industrie 4.0 – International Benchmark, Options for the Future and Recommendations for Manufacturing Research

National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) 2016 Will human workers be the slaves of intelligent machines? Will the internet giants’ dominance increase? Is the idea of a networked economy doomed to failure due to security breaches and lack of cooperation? Or will Germany succeed...
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21 Oct Skills for Industrie 4.0 – Training Requirements and Solutions (Short Version)

National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) 2016 Industrie 4.0 is bringing lasting changes in the workplace. Technologies that connect things, data, and processes are placing new demands on employees and management, especially in industry. Workplace training for Industrie 4.0 is thus the key to...
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21 Oct Industrie 4.0 in a Global Context – Strategies for Cooperating with International Partners

National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) 2016 The transformation of the economy being brought about by Industrie 4.0 is leading to the emergence of highly flexible value networks. Businesses now need to network their production activities both in-house and with the systems of external...
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