The Flexible Electronics Opportunity by Committee on Best Practice in National Innovation Programs from Flexible Electronics

Author:Committee on Best Practice in National Innovation Programs from Flexible Electronics
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2015-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

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East Asia

Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are well positioned to enter the field of flexible electronics and to dominate some of the emerging commercial applications. They have numerous large industrial groups with extensive manufacturing capabilities in sectors directly relevant to the production of flexible electronic devices, including microelectronics, optoelectronics, printing, electronic materials, photovoltaics, and displays. All three have developed increasingly strong research capabilities relevant to flexible electronics in government laboratories, universities, and company research and development (R&D) centers, and they are demonstrating that technological gaps can readily be filled by acquisition of technology abroad. With close government support, companies based in these countries have become adept at moving new technologies from the laboratory to the market quickly and efficiently. Moreover, China has developed a robust indigenous liquid crystal display (LCD) industry which it is using to leverage market entry in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays, albeit with a limited domestic supply chain and research base.

Past promotional efforts in the East Asian countries have established a strong foundation for the development of flexible electronics. Large-scale government-backed R&D efforts in semiconductors, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, new materials, and nanotechnology have ensured that with respect to the “convergence technology” of flexible electronics, Korea, Taiwan, and Japan have highly developed capabilities with respect to the major converging fields.

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