Previous Event: Plastic Electronics Conference: Overcoming market and financial barriers

The market for plastic (or printed) electronics has finally become reality, albeit not at the rate that many have predicted. Barriers to exponential growth include the inability of suppliers to lower costs and scale up production to enable mass-manufacturing. With only niche applications to date, plastic electronics has had little impact in replacing existing applications and has made only incremental progress in creating new ones.

The most immediate applications concern RFID and OLED displays. These technologies are penetrating a wide number of customer applications, and as costs decline and performance improves, will justify customers switching to and, in many cases, implementing entirely new design solutions. Others applications, such as packaging, and photovoltaic and battery storage technology, are emerging slowly but represent great potential.

However, there is a lot of speculation and exaggerated estimates about the impact of plastic electronics over time. To assist your evaluation of the future direction of this fascinating sector, Intellect, in association with BIS and ESP KTN, presented the first Plastic Electronics Conference: overcoming market and financial barriers.

Who spoke? (Download presentations, delegates only)

• Access to Finance for the Plastic Electronics sector - Paddy MccGwire, Founding Partner, Cobalt Corporate Finance LLP
• Manufacturing Sector Graeme Allinson, Head of Manufacturing, Transport, Logistics, Barclays
• Novalia - Kate Stone, Founder & CEO, Novalia
• Overcoming Market and Financial Barriers - Neil Shepherd, European Technology Research, Toppan
• Overcoming Market and Financial Barriers - Philip Cooper, Head of Ideas Development, De La Rue
• PEL- Plastic Electronics - Steve Jones, PEL-Invotec
• Plastic Electronics: UK strategy & government support - Peter Batchelor, Head of Electronics & Photonics, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
• Solar Press - Jonathan Halls, Solar-Press
• Jim Keeling, Joint Chairman, Corbett Keeling Ltd
• John Higgins, Director General, Intellect

Who attended ?

Users, suppliers, developers and researchers working with plastic electronics.

What did I miss?

This conference aimed to provide companies (often technology start-ups) with intelligence on how to market their prototypes and raise funds with banks and private equities.

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