Nanotechnology and new materials: NANOMAT

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Nanotechnology and new materials NANOMAT

• FUNMAT meeting
• January 5th, 2005
• Dag Høvik (PhD), The Research Council of Norway

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The Research Councils Vision- Science moves
boundries

• Five targets
• Improved quality in the research
• More research for innovation
• Improved diaologue between science and society
• Strengthened internationalisation of the
  Norwegian research
• More efforts to take care of the young talents

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The Research Council of Norway
Division for Science
Division for StrategicPriorities
Director General
Assisting Director General International and
EUMedia- and public comm.
Division for Innovation
Division for Administration
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The RCN has two kinds of customers
Those who are financed by the RCN
Those who finance the RCN
The Research Council of Norway (RCN)
Receiving customers (research performers)
Financing customers (financing bodies)
OBLIGATIONS
OBLIGATIONS
MONEY
MONEY
The Research Council shall for the financing
bodies (ministries, research fund,...) promote
science and strengthen the financing of the
research meet the financing customers
expectations
The Research Council shall for the research
performers(institutions) - finance research,
development and innovation - make clear RCNs
expectations
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Give advices on research policies as a part of
the customer/supplier relationship
INFLUENCE

• Receiving
• customers
• (research
• performers)

Financing customers (financing bodies)
RCN
Give advices to both financing customers and
receiving customers
COUNCELLING
COUNCELLING
Give advices on research policies which spans
from RD relevant questions, including the policy
of relevant Ministries and on how to manage the
portfolio of the RCNs receiving customers
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The RCN shall be a meeting place Different
disciplines ? Applied research and basic
science Research and the public ? Scientists
and the users of research
The Research Council of Norway (RCN)
Receiving customers (research performers)
Financing customers (financing bodies)
Meeting place
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Total RD-funding to the Research Council
1998-2005St.prp.nr. 1 2005 Actual values in NOK
Mill.
Fund
Earmarked
MD
LD
FID
OED
NHD

• UFD

• Earmarked fundings from all mininestries are at
  present estimated to be at the same level as for
  the revised budget for 2004

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Large-scale Research Programs (1)

• Research efforts spanning 5 -10 years
• Annual budget from the RCN Minimum NOK mill.
  100
• In fields of research
• of great importance to society
• combining basic and applied research
• with a need for cross-disciplinary activities
• funding from several ministries

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Large-scale Research Programs (2)

• VERDIKT Core competence and value creation in
  ICT

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NANOMAT Research Program Nanotechnology and new
materials

• Objectives and contents
• Knowledge development
• Long term research and technology development
• High risk research and development
• Create and consolidate research groups at an
  international top level within selected areas
• Co-operate with international scientist at a top
  level
• Basis for industrial innovation and growth
• Existing industry
• New, knowledge intensive industry
• Be an active player in the commercialization
  activities from the RD-institutions and their
  co-operation with the industry

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NANOMAT Research Program Nanotechnology and new
materials

• Increased value growth based on new products and
  new technology within selected areas
• New energy technology, new environment
  technology, new process technology, sensors and
  smart materials, materials for micro
  technology, medical technology and medicine
• Sustainable revitalization of the Norwegian
  industry
• Production of new advanced materials
• New products with a higher value added
• Increased output from oil and gas fields
• Technology for process improvements and
  recirculation (energy and materials)
• Take care of ethical, environmental and societal
  aspects

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NANOMAT- Finances and budgets
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Funding and budget allocations 2002-2006General
overview
FUNMAT
Advanced scientific equipment
COMPLEX
Researcher projects
Knowledge build. projects
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Grants and budget allocations per
institute/university 2002-2006
SINTEF (total)
Institute for Energy Technology (IFE)
International scholarships for the partners in
FUNMAT
The University of Oslo (UiO)
The Norwegian University of Science and
Technology (NTNU)
Others (PFI, NGU, UNIK)
The University of Bergen (UiB)
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Funding per subject 2002-2006
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Funding of PhD students and post doc fellows
PhD students and post doc fellows

• 0.5 scholarship is financed from the University
  of Oslo

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NANOMAT Research ProgramStrategic platform

• The Research Council
• Material technology have a top priority
• The NANOMAT program focus on the targets for the
  RCN

• The RD institutions
• NTNU
• A clear strategy plan
• UoO
• Strategy plan almost ready
• SINTEF
• Making a strategy plan
• IFE
• Strong focus
• UiB
• Strategy plan ready

• Coming up?
• UiTø, UNIK. PFI, NGU

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Economy 2002-2008 for NANOMAT
Best estimate for 2002-2008 NOK mill. 370
available

• Please note
• Without budget increases for 2006-2008
• Budget figures for 2009-2011 not included

Budget allocations made after calls in the period
2002-2004 NOK mill. 254
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Economy 2002-2008 for NANOMAT (cont.)

• At the call in 2005 NOK mill. 19 available
• NOK mill. 10 to KMB- and BIP-projects
• NOK mill. 5 to researcher projects within
  bionanotechnology (call together with FUGE?)
• In total NOK mill. 4 mill. kr.
• international postdoc fellowships
• projects within ethical, societal and legal
  aspects
• Budget allocationMaximum NOK mill. 2 to
  Norwegian participation in ESF EUROCORES

Available for NANOMAT calls 2006-2008 NOK mill.
95

• Note
• Budgets as steady state
• Budget figures for 2009-2011 not included

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Important questions

• Financing customers to the RCN
• Are they willing to continue and even increase
  the budget allocations per year from 2005 and
  onwards?
• Receiving customers (from the RCN)
• Are you taking good care of the money received
  from NANOMAT?
• How good are your results?

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Stakeholders

• The Society
• The regular citizen
• The press (TV, radio, newspapers,
• targeted magazines)
• Organisations
• Pressure groups

• The Market
• The research institutions
• The industry
• Trade organisations

NANOMAT- nanotechnologi and new materials

• The Research Council
• Division for Strategic priorities
• Division for Science
• Division for Innovation
• Division for Administration
• The Executive Board
• The Divison Board
• The Program Board

• Owners
• The Ministries
• The Parliament
• The political parties
• The voters/tax payers

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More important questions

• How shall the RCN make priorities nationally?
• The Foresight process will make a very good basis
  for our decision making
• How shall the different RD organizations make
  their priorities?
• What will different RD institutions exclude?
• We do not have enough money to get both milk and
  honey
• A national co-ordination is important!
• How are the different RD institutions going to
  position themselves with respect to the ongoing
  restructuring within the EU?
• 7th framework program
• European Science Foundation
• Who will be your allies internationally?

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And some more..

• How is the RD within materials technology and
  nanotechnology structured within the next 5 10
  - 15 years in Norway?
• How to find the best allies in Norway and work
  together with them?
• Established industry such as Elkem, Hydro,
  Statoil, Borealis, Borregaard, Scanwafer,..
• Newly established companies such as n-TEC,
  Keranor, Photonyx, Norspace,
• Trade organisations such as PIL, TBL, Abelia,

• And not to forget
• How to avoid the obstacles
• For the politicians and the decision makers it
  is better to learn
• Our appreciation for the financial support given
  so far
• What we have acheived
• How we will use more funding to support the
  targets in our program
• And not have complaints about too little funding

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Conclusions

• We need to put more energy into the strategy
  work, paving the way for budget increases in
  NANOMAT
• You as the scientists need to deliver (more)
  results of a high international standard
• We need to get allies outside the FUNMAT, COMPLEX
  and other scientist driven research groups
  (industry, trade organisations,)
• Convince a politician
• Investing in nanotechnology and new materials
  will give value increases for Norway in the long
  run

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Thank you for your attention
Also toNANOMAT adm Project managers in
NANOMAT Program Board in NANOMAT