Entries in Top 12 Innovation (3)
S)T in the News: Nanotechnology Report in Entrepreneur Magazine
Is your company ready for the nanotech boom? For an article entitled "Small Wonders" that appears in the May issue of Entrepreneur magazine, reporter Andrea Cooper talked to Social Technologies' Peter von Stackelberg about a brief he wrote on the future of nanomaterials.
In her article, Cooper writes:
Social Technologies, a global research and consulting firm, asked experts worldwide to predict the most important scientific and technological breakthroughs with significant commercial value through the year 2025. Nanomaterials was named one of the top 12 areas. The 2007 report, which defined nanotechnology as the creation of particles, fibers, films, coatings and other materials between 1 and 100 nanometers in size, said major accomplishments in nanotech will dramatically change "the materials and processes used to produce many of our consumer and industrial products."
Additional fields spotlighted in the Social Technologies report include construction (imagine a self-cleaning floor with an anti-microbial nanocoating); leisure goods (your tennis racket may already be reinforced with carbon nanotubes to make it stiffer and lighter); and consumer products (nanoparticles in sunscreen is one controversial application).
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Hope Katz Gibbs
in Technology, Science, Press, Top 12 Innovation
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Technology Innovation 2025: Personalized Medicine
As part of our Technology Foresight program, Social Technologies conducted a virtual, global focus group of experts in technology, innovation, and business strategy to determine the top 12 areas for technology innovation through 2025. Personalized medicine is the first innovation area in the series.
Personalized medicine: "one drug for all" to "one drug per case"
Personalized medicine includes the use of gene therapy, pharmacology and information technology to treat each patient individually. The ultimate goal of personalized medicine is the use of a person’s genome to move medicine from a reactive to a preventive stance, fixing a potential problem before it occurs rather than after it manifests. Changes in the medical and healthcare sector will give consumers more information about the interplay of disease and their own genomes, providing them the opportunity to take greater control of their healthcare and enable treatments tailored to specific genomes, which will thereby move medicine from “one drug for all” to “one drug per case.”
Christopher Kent
in Health, Technology Foresight, Top 12 Innovation
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Top 12 Areas for Technology Innovation through 2025
What will likely be the most important scientific and technological breakthroughs with significant commercial value and impacts on the lives of consumers out to 2025?
To begin to answer that question, S)T's Technology Foresight program conducted a virtual, global focus group of experts in technology, innovation, and business strategy. The group included experts from the Association of Professional Futurists, Tekes, Duke University, Hasbro, Worldwatch, General Motors, Shell, Johnson Controls, and Oxford University, among others.
After consolidating input from the expert panel and analysis by Social Technologies' futurists, what emerged was our list of top 12 areas for tech innovation through 2025:
Denise Chiavetta
in Technology, New Research, Information, Health, Innovation, Environment, Transparency, Science, Energy, Mobility, Sustainability, Technology Foresight, Top 12 Innovation
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