Key Enabling Technologies

At the end of 2009, the EC published an action plan on Key Enabling Technologies (KET) [9] as part of the preparation for the new European plan for innovation [10]. KET are of systemic relevance as they enable the restructuring of industrial processes needed to modernise EU industry and to secure the research, development and innovation base in Europe [11]. 

The EC has set up a High-Level Expert Group tasked with proposing specific policy recommendations for a more effective industrial deployment of KET in the EU [12]. 

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Stevenson R.L., Fused-silica capillaries The key enabling technology for analytical chemistry, Am. Lab. News, 30(5), 1998. 

Do reactive dendrimer modules represent a key enabling technology for synthesizing controlled complexity in the nanoscale region ... 

The above list represents the use of scanning proximity techniques in analysis and characterization, which is the focus targeted for this volume. In addition to the use of AFM and related scanning proximity approaches in analysis and characterization, these methods have become key enabling technologies in controlled manipulation of matter for nanotechnology. Although this is a field with extraordinary potential for the future, we decided to focus on the practical, analytical, and characterization aspects of AFM when used in conjunction with polymers. 

Microwave energy is a key enabling technology in achieving the objective of sustainable (green) chemistry. It has been shown that solvent-free conditions are especially suited to microwave-assisted organic synthesis, because reactions can be run... 

Stable as the membrane material made from materials costing no more than the membrane material and straightforward to fabricate. Their invention is one of the key enabling technologies for implementing planar ceramic membranes. 

Flow chemistry as a key enabling technology for (multistep) organic synthesis including synthesis of heterocycles 12ASCI 7. 

Multilayer films are produced by both cast- and blown-film coextrusion. One of the key enabling technologies in the manufacture of these multilayer films has been preencapsulation of the VDC resin (205). Preencapsulation means that the VDC resin extrudate is completely encapsulated with a more thermally stable polymer, such as an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, prior to entering the coextrusion die. Using this technique, the VDC resin is not directly exposed to the... 

In offshore production, the move into ever-deeper waters has renewed the emphasis on floating systems, where space, weight and sensitivity to motion are major constraints. If equipment is to be moved onto the sea bed, or even into the weUs themselves, PI offers some key enabling technologies. Perhaps the need to find step-ont solutions will be enough to overcome the resistance to unproven technologies which has dogged PI in the offshore area in the past. 

The key enabling technologies of the BN GT-300 result from the extensive Russian experience in fast-spectrum sodium cooled reactors and the special design of the gas turbine. 

The following are key enabling technologies relevant to the SSTAR, STAR-LM, and to a large extent STAR-H2 ... 

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