Europe’s Age of Light! How photonics will power growth and innovation vision paper from Photonics21 outlines the benefits photonics will deliver by 2030 including:
- Instant diagnosis of major diseases
- Quality food from farm to fork
- Accident and congestion-free road transport
- A truly circular economy
- A million new jobs across Europe (with >15% of the European production >150,000 of these could be in the UK)
- 10% higher productivity
- Zero downtime in a terabit economy
- Photonics as a flagship science for innovation
Collated from stakeholder workshops across Europe the challenges addressed by photonics are closely aligned to the UK grand photonic challenges identified by the PLG
