TOP 50 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: 2021 EDITION - Interactive Deliverable Access
Technologies Poised to Transform the Future of Organizations
20-Apr-2021
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For more than a decade, Frost & Sullivan’s Emerging Technology experts have provided specific answers to critical questions, guiding organizations through the Top 50 Emerging Technologies Platform. The team has lived technology discovery for decades and understands the science, the technology, and the details. Cutting-edge intelligence on the 50 most valuable and disruptive technologies explains how they are poised to effect change over the next 4 years.
The 11th edition reveals technology advancements made over the past year as a result of constantly churning tech ecosystems. It provides insight into how these converging technologies will open unprecedented opportunities for new revenue models and innovative solutions that will transform the world in which we live. It is a call to action for chief experience officers and technology, strategy, and innovation executives who focus on explosive growth in the near future.
The 2021 Top 50 technologies program started with the team evaluating more than 3,000 technologies that are at a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) between 3 to 9 across corporate, government, academic, and research organizations worldwide. The technologies span 9 areas: advanced manufacturing and automation, chemicals and advanced materials, energy and utilities, environment and sustainability, health and wellness, information and communication technologies, medical devices and imaging, sensors and instrumentation, and microelectronics. Using proprietary Frost & Sullivan methodology, each technology is evaluated considering market potential, IP activity, funding, Mega Trend impact, regional adoption, sectors of economic impact, and disruptiveness to arrive at the Top 50 emerging technologies.
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