Strategically-minded corporate partners with patience, experience and industry value-chain contacts, may be able to exploit a genuinely exciting opportunity.

A wide range of materials have long been used to create and define the performance of the products we use in our daily lives.

Yet industry can no longer assume the routine use of this same group of materials in the years to come. This poses some intriguing opportunities for those involved in corporate venturing across industrial or technology-related markets.

First, shortages and price volatility of some key materials are becoming increasingly common and this looks set to continue.…