Trend Frontier technologies accelerate innovation and become the core of national technology rivalry

Summary

KISTEP expects technology and industrial innovation centred on frontier fields such as space, biotechnology and energy to accelerate further. Productivity gains and faster economic and industrial growth are anticipated to follow from this wave. The same frontier technologies are emerging as the decisive assets in the competition among nations for technological supremacy. Foresight studies reviewed by the report point to robotics, life sciences, energy and space technology rising as core innovation fields by the 2030s. It adds that convergence among these technologies is forecast to become a central engine of industrial innovation.