Airborne transmission is considered one of the most common ways of transmitting respiratory viruses. The reach of airborne pathogens and persistence of aerosolized particles suspended in the air are a significant concern for the spread of pandemic and seasonal respiratory diseases. This is...

This study exposes relevant tensions between deep-tech startups' sound technological solutions, confronted with lack of marketing skills to communicate their unique value proposition for targeted customers. Incorporating technological foresight as an essential component of strategic foresight,...

This study aims to identify generative AI (GenAI) applications and develop a roadmap for the near, mid, and far future. Structural topic modeling (STM) is used to discover latent semantic patterns and identify the key application areas from a text corpus comprising 2,398 patents published...

Technological forecasting (TF) is a crucial tool that allows knowing the technological trends of the topics developed by scientists and entrepreneurs, thus anticipating environmental changes. On a global scale, these products (chocolates) are at the level of patents, with China being the country...

Diese Studie analysiert die Bedeutung von Schlüsseltechnologien für die wirtschaftlich-gesellschaftliche Entwicklung in Deutschland. Sie erläutert die Entwicklung und Zielsetzung des Begriffs und entwickelt eine Heuristik zur Bestimmung von Technologien, die in diesem Sinne aktuell relevant...

The South African banking industry has evolved from simply plugging technologies into its systems to a data-intensive domain. With data disrupting every known market, there is a significant need to take advantage of the magnitude and detail of data captured by the enterprise to augment...

"A Fortune magazine journalist draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and scientists at the forefront of artificial intelligence to offer dramatic predictions of AI's impact over the next decade, from reshaping our economy and the way we work, learn, and create to...

This study collected literature on augmented reality (AR) from academic and patent databases to plot the historic development trajectory of AR and forecast its future research and development trends. A total of 3193 and 13,629 papers were collected from academic and patent databases,...

The goal of this dissertation is to contribute to the corporate foresight research field by investigating capabilities, practices, and challenges particularly in the context of interorganizational settings and networked organizations informed by the theoretical perspectives of the relational...

"America was once the world's dream factory. We turned imagination into reality, from curing polio to landing on the Moon to creating the internet. And we were confident that more wonders lay just over the horizon: clean and infinite energy, a cure for cancer, humanoid robots, radical life...

Fishbone diagram is a graphical technique to show the several causes of a specific event. Fish-bone diagram is applied here as a novel graphical representation to identify, explore and analyze the source and evolution of innovation and especially General Purpose Technologies (GPTs). Firstly, the...

This research identifies best practices and practical considerations for regulatory applications of emerging technologies. The 12 case studies discussed within this report cover a range of regulatory functions, sectors and technologies. Based on this, the report sets out a road map of best...

The quality of an innovative idea and the likelihood that it will lead to a successful new product or service is directly related to the quality of the information that is used to generate the idea and assess its value. Ideas based on a poor understanding of the underlying need or technologies...

Information and communication technologies (ICT), which are transforming most areas, develop non-linearly. Failure to take into account the nonlinear principles of complex dynamic systems hinders the development of balanced innovation strategies. Companies and governments lose the ability to...

During the past decade, Taiwan, a reliable source of quality 12-inch wafer manufacturing, grew to become the largest supplier of TFT-LCD panels in the world. The financial crisis in 2008 and increasing competition from other Asian manufacturers shortly after, led to the current scenario, which...

JRC has developed a quantitative methodology to detect very early signs of emerging technologies, so called "weak signals of technology development". Using text mining and scientometrics indicators, 256 of these weak signals have been identified on the basis of scientific literature and are...

JRC has developed a quantitative methodology to detect very early signs of emerging technologies, so called "weak signals of technology development". Using text mining and scientometrics indicators, 256 of these weak signals have been identified on the basis of scientific literature and are...

I. The myth of automated autonomy. The fantasy of full automation -- Spotty automation and less-than-human workers -- II. The myth of automation everywhere. Technology in context, technology as culture -- Automation on the ground -- III. The myth of automating everyone. Automation's racialized...