A major impetus behind future strong growth in the printed and flexible electronics sector will come from expansions into new markets – many of them niche segments – backed by new technologies and novel applications of existing ones.   However, an important factor will be the ability of producers to keep down their costs with high levels of manufacturing efficiency while making greater use of integrated and multifunctional systems.   This was a key message from the recent three-day conference on Innovations in Large-Area Electronics (innoLAE 2020) at Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, England. The event, which included an Industry Day sponsored by the state-funded scale-up Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), was organized by the locally based Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large-Area Electronics (CIMLAE) of the UK government’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).   CIMLAE’s mission i