List of acronyms, abbreviations and units of measure
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
Advanced Functional Fabrics of America
Advanced Forming Research Centre
Artificial intelligence
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Accelerated Insertion of Materials
Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office (United States)
Advanced Manufacturing Partnership
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information
Application programming interface
Advanced Robotics Manufacturing
Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Advanced Sensing, Control, and Platforms for Manufacturing
Advanced Technology Education
Aerospace Technology Institute
Alcohol-to-jet
Advanced Technology Programme
Business Development Bank of Canada
Bureau of Economic Analysis (United States)
Bureau of Labor Statistics (United States)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany)
Business management system
Biological Robustness in Complex Settings
Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Computer-aided design
Compound annual growth rate
Center for Applied Simulation and Analytics
Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation
Climate Change and Emissions Management Fund
Chief executive officer
Comparative effectiveness research
Current Employment Statistics
Carbon fibre-reinforced polymer
International Academy for Production Engineering (France)
Contributor License Agreement
Construction laser additive directe
Cluster for Energy and Environment (Finland)
Continuous liquid interface production
Complementary metal oxide semiconductor
Computer-numeric-control
Convolutional and deep neural network
Carbon nanotube
Centers of Innovation
Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China
Centre for Process Innovation
Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference
Central processing unit
Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise
China Regenerative Medicine International
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (United States)
Data-driven innovation
Design for environment practices
German Research Foundation
Digital light processing
Direct metal deposition
Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute
Direct metal laser sintering
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Deep neural network
Data technology
Ethical concern
Electricité de France
Exploiting the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
European Factories of the Future Association
European Foresight Monitoring Network
European Food Safety Authority
European Investment Bank
Ethical, legal, and social issue
Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool
European Patent Office
Extended Producer Responsibility
Enterprise resource planning
Environmentally responsible public procurement
Economic Research Service
Economic and Social Research Council
European Union
Frequently asked question
Food and Drug Administration (United States)
Foreign direct investment
Fused deposition modelling
Fused filament fabrication
From Learning, Analytics, and Materials to Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Floating Mobile Data
Fund of Funds
Foresight Regional Development Network
Five-Year Plan
Grammes per square centimetre
Government Budget Appropriations or Outlays for Research and Development
Gross domestic product
Greenhouse gas
Geographic information system
Genetically modified
Genetic modification of crops
Genetically modified organism
Global navigation satellite system
Global positioning system
General-purpose technology
Graphics processing unit
Gross value-added
Global value chain
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (United Kingdom)
Human Genome Project
Human intelligence task
Hazardous Materials Identification System
Higher National Diplomas
High Value Manufacturing
Infrastructure-as-a-service
Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation
Industries and Agro-Resources
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering
Information and communication technology
International Data Corporation
International Energy Agency
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
International Monetary Fund
International mobile subscriber identity
Internet of Things
Intellectual property
Intellectual Property Office (United States)
Intellectual property right
Industrial robot
Industrial Research Assistance Program
Information technology
Indium tin oxide
In vitro fertilisation
Japan BioPlastics Association
Junior Research Associate
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Knowledge-based capital
Key Enabling Technology
Key performance indicator
Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology
Knowledge Transfer Network
Kilometre
Kilovolt
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Life-cycle analysis
Life-cycle impact assessment
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Mergers and acquisition
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)
Manufacturers’ Association for Productivity and Investment
Masters of business administration
Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Manufacturing execution system
Materials Genome Initiative
Manufacturing innovation institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Megajoule per kilogramme
Massive open online course
Megapascal
Manufacturing technology area
Manufacturing Technology Centre
National Council for Advanced Manufacturing
National Academy of Engineering (United States)
National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute
Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States)
National Agricultural Statistical Service (United States)
North Carolina
National Composites Centre
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (United States)
National Economic Council (United States)
National Fund for Technology Transfer and Commercialization (China)
Non-governmental organisation
Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (Norway)
National Institute for Materials Science (Japan)
Nanoscale Informal Science Education
National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States)
Nanometre
National Nanotechnology Initiative (United States)
National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (United States)
National People’s Congress (China)
National Research Council (Canada)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (United States)
National Science Foundation (United States)
National Science and Technology Council (United States)
Nanyang Technological University
National University of Singapore
Overall equipment effectiveness
Original equipment manufacturer
Open Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models
Open Material Transfer Agreement
Open-source software
Office of Science and Technology Policy (United States)
Platform-as-a-service
Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment
Power by the hour
Penetration of advanced manufacturing technologies
Printed Electronics Arena
Political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental
Polyethylene terephthalate
Polyhydroxyalkanoate
Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
Photonics-integrated circuit
Production in the Innovation Economy
Programme for International Student Assessment
Programmable logic controller
Public-private partnership
Production tax credit
Photovoltaic
Research and development
Roadmap for Additive Manufacturing
Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment
Randomised control trial
Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals
Reducing Embodied Energy and Decreasing Emissions
Radio-frequency identification
Restriction of Hazardous Substances
Return on an investment
Responsible research and innovation
Research and technology organisation
Science and technology
Software-as-a-service
Subcommittee on Advanced Manufacturing
Small Business Innovation Research
Supervisory control and data acquisition
Supply chain management
Silicon nitride
Strategic Innovation Promotion Program
Stereolithography
Selective laser melting
Selective laser sintering
Small and medium-sized enterprises
State-owned enterprise
Steel Research Group
Social Science Research Network
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics
Science, technology and innovation
Scanning tunnelling microscope
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
Technology Foresight Programme
Technology readiness level
United Nations
Uncertainty quantification
Universal serial bus
US Department of Agriculture
US Department of Defense
US Department of Energy
US Patent Office
Ultraviolet
Visualization, informatics and digital manufacturing
Volatile organic compound
Water-based digital fabrication
Waste electrical and electronic equipment
Work-in-progress
World Intellectual Property Organization
World Trade Organization