The majority of physicists do not work in academia, but rather in environments such as industry and government. The IUPAP has established a Working Group on Physics in Industry to help us develop better connections with these physicists and to use these connections to better use physics to promote development. According to a report issued by American Physical Society in 2016, an estimated 12.6% of the U.S. economy can be ascribed directly to the practice of industrial physics.
To strengthen the liaison with physicists and physics-trained professionals that work outside academia we will explore the possibility of enlarging the types of membership to have individual and/or corporate members.
