Funding projects for nation level photonics initiatives/consortiums
国家的投資プログラム by フォトニクスイニシアチブ/コンソーシアム
1. National Photonics Initiative, US
National Photonics Initiative (NPI) Applauds Federal Competition To Create An Integrated Photonics Institute For Manufacturing Innovation (IP-IMI)Obama admin. announces $200 million to create an integrated photonics manufacturing institute
five key photonics-driven fields: ADVANCED MANUFACTURING COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEFENSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY ENERGY HEALTH AND MEDICINE |
Washington, DC /PRNewswire/ - The National Photonics Initiative (NPI), an alliance of top scientific societies uniting industry and academia to raise awareness of photonics, applauded today's Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the US Department of Defense (DOD), through the Air Force Research Laboratory, calling for concept papers for the establishment of an Integrated Photonics Institute for Manufacturing Innovation (IP-IMI). In October, President Obama announced his administration's intent to form an IP-IMI, the sixth institute under his National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI). The FOA reaffirms this commitment with DOD investing $110 million, matched by $110 million or more in investment from industry, academia and/or state and local government, to the winning proposal. The IP-IMI will be the largest federal investment to date. "Although the US has historically been the world leader in transitioning photonics research to the commercial markets, several nations around the world have recently invested heavily in advancing their already strong optics and photonics industries," said NPI Steering Committee Chair, Tom Baer. "The NPI commends the administration for its commitment to developing an IP-IMI that will stimulate greater US investment and production and galvanize our nation's position at the forefront of the global marketplace." Optics and photonics are the science and application of light. Specifically, photonics generates, controls and detects light to advance robotics, manufacturing, medical imaging, next-generation displays, defense technologies, biometric security, image processing, communications, astronomy and much more. Integrated photonics circuits incorporate multiple miniature optical structures to manipulate and control beams of light, in the same way that integrated electronic circuits control electrons, in order to encode, transmit and decode information. A major goal for the IP-IMI will be to develop low-cost, high volume, manufacturing methods to interface electronic integrated circuits with integrated photonic devices. According to the FOA, the Government intends to support the establishment of an IP-IMI that will advance the state-of-the-art in the design, manufacture, testing, assembly, and packaging of complex photonic integrated circuits that combine a variety of photonic and electronic components to achieve functionality. This end-to-end integrated photonics manufacturing innovation 'ecosystem' in the US will include: integrated design tools for efficient simulation and design of integrated photonic circuits, domestic photonic device fabrication foundry access, automated packaging, assembly and test of integrated photonic circuits, and workforce development. Activities under the IP-IMI will enable universities and small-to-medium enterprises to participate in the integrated photonics revolution. This IMI will bring government, industry and academia together with the goal of organizing the current fragmented domestic capabilities in integrated photonic technology and better position the U.S. relative to global competition. Issuance of the FOA follows a DOD Request for Information (RFI) published in June that sought responses from experts on key technologies, including optics and photonics, being considered to serve as the basis for a new institute under the NNMI. Coordinated by the NPI in partnership with founding sponsor societies The Optical Society (OSA) and SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, dozens of experts within the national photonics community organized to answer DOD's information request and provide numerous, thoughtful and compelling responses. "The FOA provides a historic opportunity for the photonics community to ultimately develop concrete public-private proposals for boosting US manufacturing capabilities and leadership in optics and photonics," added Baer. "The NPI is calling on our entire community, from industry to academia, to come together and respond enthusiastically to the federal government's FOA announcement by providing compelling concept papers for developing the IP-IMI." |
A Response to Request for Information on NNMI
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2. photonics21
The EU supporting photonics |
Photonics21 commits to €7BN investment plan 16 Sep 2011 The industry group representing photonics in Europe agrees to a four-fold leveraging of initial public funding for technology development. Photonics21, which includes more than 1800 representatives of photonics industry and science in Europe, has proposed a €7 billion public-private partnership (PPP) investment to deliver technology innovation and commercialization on a scale not seen before in the continent. As part of the forthcoming "Horizon 2020" program, Photonics21 said that the European photonics industry would provide a private-sector investment amounting to four times the initial funding from the European Commission (EC). That would amount to private sector investment of €5.6 billion over seven years. And when combined with a requested public provision of €1.4 billion, the total investment in photonics innovation under the plan would be €1 billion per year from 2014 until 2020 – if all goes according to plan. |
The EU supporting photonics |
Public and private sector join forces – Re - industrialising Europe the smart way Neelie Kroes signed Photonics PPP to boost Europe's innovation capacity and competitivenessBrussels, 17 December 2013: The signing of the Photonics PPP (public–private partnership) by Commission Vice - President Neelie Kroes and Photonics21, the representative organ of the European photonics industry, marks the successful conclusion of a joint effort between the public and the private sectors to help get Europe on the fast track to economic recovery. |