Key technology areas

It is vital that the UK maintains core expertise and leading edge technologies to underpin business growth, and maintains a pipeline of new advances to keep UK businesses at the leading edge.

We have defined several key technology areas which allow us to focus initiatives and interventions on core technologies that are critical to the UK's success.

These areas currently include:

• High value-added manufacturing processes.
  
• Advanced materials.
  
• Nanotechnology.
  
• Bioscience.
  
• Electronics, photonics and electrical systems.
  
• Information and communication technologies.

We are identifying a number of priorities across these key technology areas and will develop, publish and implement strategies that justify and prioritise our interventions.