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Emerging Technologies

The purpose of the Technology Strategy Board’s focus on emerging technologies is three-fold:

Providing the opportunity for businesses to take advantage at an early stage of some of the exciting research that is taking place in the science base.

• To identify research at an early stage which shows real commercial potential
• To raise awareness of the research with businesses in the UK which have the capability to take advantage of it
• Through Government support, to help remove the risks of early stage investigation

Three initial emerging technology areas have been selected for investigation:

• nanomedicine
• quantum information processing
• smart and adaptive optics