In this Section
SOA Membership Benefits
- Access to Member Support Services, for example:
- Market and trend analysis
- Information regarding available technology reports
- Roadmapping
- Industry analysis
- Competitor analysis
- Technology signposting
- Cross-disciplinary advice
- Partner company identification
- Source of research and/or consultancy
- Funding and grant signposting
- Your "Member Profile" entered in the website, CD and other versions of the SOA membership directory;
- Access to the Members Area of the website which contains:
- Valuable documents (Roadmaps, Reports, Analyses, etc.)
- Slides from presentations made at past SOA events;
- Directory of Funding sources, etc.
- Invitations to meetings held by the SOA and associated organisations;
- Information on Scottish, UK, European and Worldwide activities of relevance;
- Information on funding sources;
- Opportunities to attend trade shows as part of the Scottish Pavilion (provided to SOA members by Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Development International);
- Alerts to SOA identified collaboration opportunities;
- Advice on relevant standards;
- Entry to SOA Press Release and Public Relations initiatives;
- Opportunity to provide input to SOA lobbying of Government, etc.
Additional Benefits to Government Agency Members
- Agreement of up to 2 meeting themes aligned to agency photonics strategy
- Support of inward and outward trade missions
- Dissemination of agency messages
- Feedback of membership response to agency initiatives
- Updates on Photonics activity initiated by other government agencies
- Surveys of Photonics activity in Scotland