D3.5: Strategic Research Agenda

This Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) is the result of intensive research, jointly performed by a wide network of stakeholders from discrete manufacturing, process industry and logistic sector, within NEXT-NET project. Several actors of the innovation ecosystem (i.e. companies, research organisations, DIHs, and policy makers) put forward their vision to strengthen European supply chains over the next decade. The first part of the SRIA presents an overview of the 6 macro scenarios up to 2030, developed on the basis of the evolution of megatrends, followed by the consequent challenges and a map of the enabling technologies for supply chains. In the second part, the NEXT-NET vision for European supply chains is presented, with a detailed description of the 10 supply chain strategies identified as most relevant, and related research and innovation topics (RITs) as future developments required for the full implementation of the strategies. Finally, a set of policy recommendations are proposed, to address the key horizontal issues common to most of the strategies and requiring action at policy level.