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Results from the two technology questions regarding the micro manufacturing processes with highest perceived current or future impact on the market are shown in Table 4. Technologies are divided according to the three workshop application groups (see T1, T2, T3 above) and further into the seven categories within the 4M technology classification. ‘Other’ answers from industry, one respondent for each, were glass moulding and soft embossing. Note that the scores within each of the three workshop groups were nominally constrained to be approximately equal; however there was some ‘leakage’ between groups, i.e. groups would sometimes choose technologies from one of the other two groups. Note also that in some cases scores were allocated to a category of technologies rather than to individual technologies.