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Electronic Systems Research Supporting excellent research and impactful ideas

Electronic Systems Research Supporting excellent research and impactful ideas. Dr. Derek Gillespie Senior Portfolio Manager @ DAGillespie. Societal Trends for the Future. Societal Trends for the Future. Societal Trends for the Future. An increasing global population.

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Electronic Systems Research Supporting excellent research and impactful ideas

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  1. Electronic Systems Research Supporting excellent research and impactful ideas Dr. Derek Gillespie Senior Portfolio Manager @DAGillespie

  2. Societal Trends for the Future

  3. Societal Trends for the Future

  4. Societal Trends for the Future An increasing global population • Explosive population growth from 1800s onwards • 1804: ~1 billion people • 2010: ~ 6.85 billion people • Projections for 2040 predict 9 billion people on Earth • Population demographics are changing. By 2020: • Increasingly ageing population • ‘Generation Y’ increase • Over 35% of ‘Generation Y’ is predicted to live in India and China – almost • 1 billion 15-34 year olds. Age bracket % population

  5. Societal Trends for the Future Future infrastructure & mass urbanization Healthcare for an ageing population Global food production Sustainable energy supply & demand Ubiquitous information & connectivity Innovative, pervasive technology New modes of global conflict Increasing resource scarcity

  6. Societal Trends for the Future In 2012, there were over 4 billion YouTube videos streamed daily. • In one second on the internet, there are: • 463 photos uploaded to Instragram. • 1024 calls made using Skype. • 3935 tweets posted on Twitter. • 11,574 files uploaded to Dropbox. • 33,330 Google searches carried out. • 46,330 videos watched on YouTube. • 52,083 posts ‘Liked’ on Facebook. Ubiquitous information & connectivity There are more mobile phone connections than there are people on the Earth. Mobile data traffic is growing at 92% (CAGR). By 2010, the number of text messages sent in one day exceeded the global population.

  7. Societal Trends for the Future “Global economic activity [as measured by GDP] has increased by a factor of forty since the start of the industrial revolution.” IPCC (2001) Innovative, pervasive technology Robotics & Autonomous Systems Satellite Networks Production Technologies Agri-Tech Biotechnology Nanotechnology

  8. The Transistor and the Integrated Circuit • First transistor invented in 1947. • Miniaturization of the technology, in line with Moore’s Law, is astounding – fast approaching the point whereby quantum considerations need to be taken into account. • Complexity of integrated circuits has increased more than a billion-fold since the 1960s. • The price of an individual transistor is now less than one millionth of the cost in the late 1960s. • Had the cost of automobiles fallen at the same rate, a new car today would cost less than one pence.

  9. The UK Electronic Systems Community 850,000 People working on electronic systems in UK industry £80Bn “At the heart of many societal advancements are the enabling technologies of electronic systems” • Warren East • ESCO Executive Steering Group Contribution to the UK economy, or 5.4% UK GDP

  10. UK Universities: Excellence in Research Excellence 1% 5% Worldwide World population World research spending UK 12% 9% 14% World research publications World citations World most-cited papers

  11. EPSRC’s Electronics Research Portfolio >£150M EPSRC portfolio of active grants in electronic design and devices 125 Active programmes of research involving electronic design and devices

  12. EPSRC’s Electronics Research Portfolio Electronic Structure ~£81M Photonic Materials & Metamaterials ~£108M Optoelectronic Devices & Circuits ~£107M Magnetism & Magnetic Materials ~£68M Over £150M of active grants investigating electronic devices and design Sensors & Instrumentation ~£43M Architectures & Operating Systems ~£57M ICT Networks & Distributed Systems ~£100M Digital Signal Processing ~£39M

  13. The Research System Societal Drivers Societal Requirement System Requirements System Integration Enabling Technology Technology Base Fundamental Knowledge Knowledge Base

  14. Recent Major EPSRC Investments EPSRC Programme Grant ‘The Multicorder’ – Sensing for Healthcare Societal Requirement System Integration Power Electronics – The EPSRC National Centre for Power Electronics Many-Core Computing – EPSRC Programme Grants ‘PRiME’ and ‘PAMELA’ Technology Base Plastic Electronics – EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large Area Electronics Knowledge Base

  15. Where could the community act? Future information infrastructure Material security & sustainability Challenge & Application ‘Pull’ Society Energy sustainability Novel healthcare technologies ‘Smart’ cities Bio-compatible electronics Distributed or integrated sensor systems Autonomous systems & robotics System Silicon photonics Additive manufacturing Large area, flexible electronics Technology Energy harvesting Communication devices & networks Power electronic devices Knowledge & Technology ‘Push’ Neurological and bio-sciences Novel materials for electronic applications Quantum physics & electronics Knowledge

  16. Grant Funding: Pathways to Impact • Funding to Facilitate Potential Impacts • Since 2009, applicants can ask for project-specific, impact-related costs as part of a grant proposal. • Applicants can ask for funding at the point of application, in order to provide the opportunities or required skills that allow the team to promote the potential impacts of their research. • To make use of this, applicants have to consider which impact activities or training they might require when planning the research proposal. • All costs must be outlined and justified, as with other requests for funding.

  17. Grant Funding: Pathways to Impact • Funding to Facilitate Potential Impacts • Some specific examples of activities that could be requested are: • Secondments • Increased investigator time • Training activities • Employment of specialist staff • Marketing and publicity • Workshops, seminars and networking • Public engagement • Early-stage commercialisation exploration • Evidence shows that these resources are heavily under-used by applicants!

  18. Institutions: Impact Acceleration Accounts • Accessible funding for tailored impact activities • Account-based funding given to universities on the basis of a peer-reviewed submission. • Allows institutions the flexibility to operate tailored schemes that facilitate increased likelihood of impact from research. • Retain key benefits of KTA & KTS Schemes: • Secondments • Proofs of Concept • Follow-On Funding 95% Percentage of EPSRC portfolio, by value, covered by Impact Acceleration Accounts.

  19. What Can We Do Together? • There are challenges to be tackled. • Where does the UK electronic systems research community ‘want to go’? • What are the technologies of the future that need electronics at their heart? • Who needs to be engaged outside of the electronics community for the UK to take a lead? • Engage strongly with the eFutures network. • Work in partnership with the ESCO team to make the importance of electronics clear. • Partner with EPSRC – planning for the future starts now. Grand Challenges in Silicon Technology

  20. www.epsrc.ac.uk : 01793 44 4301 : derek.gillespie@epsrc.ac.uk EPSRC ICT Theme @DAGillespie @EPSRC

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