The Material Genome Initiative Puts High-Tech Development On The Fast Track | Fast Company

The Material Genome Initiative Puts High-Tech Development On The Fast Track | Fast Company: In part, the concept calls for replacing some scientific intuition and trial and error experimentation with virtual experiments conducted on powerful computers, as well as infrastructure to share engineering data and models. "The materials community must embrace open innovation," the report states. It also describes a plan to streamline today's unwieldy, seven-stage commercialization process.