The OYSTER project is exploring the wettability of surfaces and how they can be engineered to order. This pioneering manufacturing and coating technology plays a vital role whenever a product’s solid surface forms an interface with a liquid. Prosthetic implants such as knee and hip joints, for e...
Apprenticeships combining alternating periods at the workplace and in training institutions are well suited to providing young people with an entry point into the labour market and to supplying enterprises with skilled workers. This report examines apprenticeship systems and practices in the man...
The purpose of this study is to analyse the factors which influence the location of economic activities which are typically concentrated in the Copenhagen region. Although there has been a substantial growth in manufacturing employment in the underdeveloped regions, this development has almost e...
This overview report summarises the findings of five case studies on the likely impact of game changing technologies on production and employment in the manufacturing sector in Europe up to 2025: advanced industrial robotics; industrial internet of things; additive manufacturing; electric vehicl...
With a budget of almost EUR 2.4 billion from 2014 to 2020, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) creates sustainable growth and jobs by boosting innovation and entrepreneurship across Europe. To achieve this, we have pioneered dynamic European partnerships that bring together...
REACH-EN-FORCE-3 is the third enforcement project of the Forum and encompasses the “Inspection and enforcement of compliance with registration obligations by manufacturers, importers and only representatives in close cooperation with customs”. The focus of the inspection has been on the registra...
The rise of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) may be considered as one of the decisive trends of economic evolution of industrialised countries in recent decades. This paper uses the concept of vertical integrated sectors and the subsystem approach to input-output matrix analysis to s...
The project aim is to reduce the principal sources of poor shape within the stainless steel strip production route (Sendzimir Mill, vertical bright annealer (VBA), tension leveller), taking into account interactions between various hot/cold mill processes. Strip condition is monitored through th...