Abstract
Editorial: Towards the Laboratory of the Future for the Factory of the Future
Highlights
NEXTLAB 2014 - Advances in Innovative Experimental Methodology or Simulation Tools used to Create, Test, Control and Analyse Systems, Materials and Molecules
be a unit composed of several expert laboratories
our future environment will comprise the laboratory of the future
Summary
NEXTLAB 2014 - Advances in Innovative Experimental Methodology or Simulation Tools used to Create, Test, Control and Analyse Systems, Materials and Molecules. – economic dimensions should be factored early into our research and development thinking; – future research agenda will require still more multidisciplinary approach(es), with combined contributions from a broad range of disciplines: the borders between biology, chemistry, physics, material science and mathematics will further blur; – while technical and process advances might accelerate research, development and deployment, we need to consider the best ways to gear our RDD processes towards innovation and, perhaps inspired by “nature-art-science-engineering intersections”, devise approaches might trigger fresh creative impulses; – a balance between the motivations for enabling open access to data and results, and those for sustaining a competitive edge at institutional, corporate or national levels needs to be considered; – the laboratory of the future may be a unit composed of several expert laboratories, with different geographic locations, mobilized on the basis of the specific research requirements (chemical reaction, separation methods, purification, modeling, etc.); – our future environment will comprise the laboratory of the future or the factory of the future, but a strong connection even a shared vision between them.
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