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Exploiting the Electromagnetic Spectrum

This DTI-sponsored 'Foresight' project looks at twenty areas of EMS research with application potential for venture capitalists. The reviews look at new technological advances and assesses their likely impacts over the next 10–20 years. Markets include technologies for more efficient use of mobile communications; increased data communications capacity; sensing and imaging; and manipulating molecules and materials on very small scales.

The report looks at:

• Switching to light: all-optical data handling
• Manufacturing with light: photonics at the molecular level
• Inside the wavelength: electromagnetics in the near field
• Picturing people: non-intrusive imaging

This Foresight project also commissioned a market research company to assess the possible market sizes for the applications identified by the study as offering the greatest potential.

Stakeholders involved in the research include Dr Hermann Hauser, Director of Amadeus Capital Partners and Professor Will Stewart, former Chief Scientist at Marconi.

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Foresight produces challenging visions of the future, to ensure effective strategies now. It does this by providing a core of skills in science-based futures projects and unequalled access to leaders in government, business and science. Futures thinking is part of strategy development: therefore, carrying out science-based futures work is part of the process of embedding quality science in strategic development more generally.