9. Integrative methods also allow for the anticipation of converging technology. Swanson explored knowledge discovery by exploring database links 10.
Converging technologies at the nanoscale: the making of a new world? Technology and Strategic management 20 (1)( 2008) 29 44 January 24 P. Berg, et al.
, interrestrial visitors, alliance, eco-collapse, biotech Increased impact of converging technologies on social life Natural language codifications becomes available allowing people communicate globally New s&t paradigms for knowledge society
Converging technologies, collaboration or fusion of several fields (nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science) have been given attention since the mid-2000s.
and converging technologies focus on human performance or the social or economic dimension (National science Foundation, 2002,2005; European commission, 2004.
It is expected that converging technologies will trigger innovation and lead to the solution of social issues in the future.
European commission (2004), Converging technologies Shaping the Future of European Societies, European commission, Brussels. European commission (2009), Mapping Foresight:
National science Foundation (2002),‘Converging technologies for improving human performance'',National science Foundation, Arlington VA. National science Foundation (2005),‘Managing nano-bio-info-cogno innovations:
converging technology society'',National science Foundation, Arlington, VA. Popper, R. 2008),‘How are selected foresight methods?''''Foresight, Vol. 10 No. 6, pp. 62-89.
4. converging technologies; 5. increasing pace of change; and 6. energy security. Figure 1 shows the distribution of drivers and trends on an impact versus likelihood matrix.
For illustrative purposes, an example is given of a high impact and high likelihood trend (converging technologies; there is one example of a high impact
mobility and higher education Learning as a lifelong behaviour Vocational skills gaps Technological development Converging technologies The increasing pace of technological change Technology platforms Open innovation models Death of intellectual property?
impact trends (identified by roundtable participants) Ten trends most likely to happen Ten highest impact trends Rise of BRICS Converging technologies Ageing populations Knowledge economy Global population
growth Energy security Renewable energy Renewable energy Peak oil Global trade falters Converging technologies Increasing pace of change Increasing pace of change Open innovation
technological cooperation and converging technologies. Clearly innovation is an essential feature of the scenarios. 2 PRELUDE:
furthermore with the discourse on converging technologies, referring to the synergistic combination of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive sciences (NBIC),
where a similar governance framework as in the case of nanotechnology is discussed 10 (M. Roco, Possibilities for global governance of converging technologies, J. Nanopart.
Indeed, it turns out there are strong analogies between nanotechnology and converging technologies, though they seem to be very different phenomena with regard to the funding and policy dynamics in the fields.
whereas in the field of converging technologies broad futuristic discourses took place that were followed not by funding strategies dedicated explicitly to converging technologies. 445 P. Schaper-Rinkel/Technological forecasting
unifying and transforming tools, AICHE J. 50 (2004) 890 897.10 M. Roco, Possibilities for global governance of converging technologies, J. Nanopart.
Cross-disciplinary and‘converging'technologies Recently the concept of cross-disciplinarity, that furthhe develops into‘converging technologies'has emerged in the US and in Europe.
It emphasizes producctiv interactions between previously separate fields of research and technological development. Such shifts can result in new technological possibilitiies with potentially revolutionary impacts associated with changing innovation patterns, industry structurres and broader developments in society.
IT and cognitive sciences (NBIC) and that these converging technologies could radically change society, econoom and culture in the next 20 years.
In the US the term‘converging technologies'was used first at a 2001 workshop organized by the US National science Foundation and the US Departmeen of Commerce entitled‘Converging Technologiie for Improving Human Performance'.
2004) directed to the application of converging technologies to development of a Europeea knowledge society. This report contains the pragmatic definition:
Converging technologies are enabling technoloogie and knowledge systems that enable each other in pursuit of a common goal Nares Damrongchai obtained his MPHIL degree from the University of Cambridge, UK and a doctorate in engineering from Tokyo Institute of technology.
His recent research interests incluude converging technologies to combat emerging infectiiou diseases and climate change. Ponpiboon Satangput graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2001
Converging technologies are enabling technologies and knowledge systems that enable each other in pursuit of a common goal Biosecurity
The new challenge in the present study is the roadmapping of converging technologies within the diversity of the Asia-pacific region.
, NEMS based Biochip) Figure 1. Examples of converging technologies, APEC Center for Technology foresight (www. apecforesight. org) 2006 Source:
All the technology research and application domaain identified in the roadmapping workshops fit with the life cycle model (see Figure 5). In keeping with the theme of converging technologies,
Hence, the unique contribution of this paper lies in its dealing with cross-disciplinary technologies (converging technologies) in a cross-boundary regioona setting (Asia-pacific.
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Converging technologies: Shaping the Future of European Societies. Report by High-level Expert Group on‘Foresighting the New technology Wave'.
Paper presented at the APEC Scenario Workshop on Converging technologies to combat EIDS, held at Khao Lak, Thailand.
Converging technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnollogy Information technology and Cognitive science. Arlingtoon VA: National science Foundation. Tegart, G and R Johnston 2004.
Nordmann, A. 2004)‘ Converging technologies Shaping the future of European societies',Report of an Expert Group to the European commission.
technology megatrends, converging technologies,‘biologilisation',miniaturisation, intelligent environments etc. These developments were addressed directly in the Fraunhofer foresight process at that time (Klingner et al. 2008.
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