Haha the first one, but also "small-sized" (in addition to mid-sized)
Also want to point out to academic spinoffs (which most of these SMEs are) like
https://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2023_041_nanomaterials-3d...
They have been "incorporated" but still seems like they haven't got the attention they deserve? (Okay the temp/volume is maybe not low/high enough, but the process is almost domestic kitchen level simple)
Central Europe out of all places.
> very similar low volume ceramics/optics SME networks
By which you mean - excuse the question - "SME networks" as in "business-networked" mid-size commercial concerns doing low volume production in the electroptical field -or- production networks running optoelectronic hardware at a small scale? Or, both ...