Addressing Global Challenges Through Innovation and Structural Policy: Identification of Early Technological Developments

Abstract

This chapter explores the perspectives of addressing global challenges related to health care, energy, climate, and environment using the instruments of innovation and structural policy. It develops an analytical framework for continuously scanning emerging technologies and scientific developments using the TIM Analytics database of scientific publications and patent applications. The analysis identified the most promising early developments and weak signals among the technological areas with high activeness of publications over the period of 2015–2022. In the field of health care, emerging technologies are focused on providing better ways of diagnostics (liquid biopsy, biosensors, and theranostics), drug delivery (exosomes, graphene-based drug delivery), tissue recovery (organoids), and preventive treatment (personalized medicine). Emerging trends in clean energy include new types of solar energy generation and storage (perovskite thin film solar cells, concentrated solar power, graphene solar panels, and artificial photosynthesis) and self-powered systems (nanogenerators). To address the issues of climate change and environmental deterioration, one should pay close attention to emerging carbon capture technologies (biochar, direct capture, and BECC).

Citation

Ustenko, V.S. and Bobodzhonova, E.M. (2024), "Addressing Global Challenges Through Innovation and Structural Policy: Identification of Early Technological Developments", Eshov, M.P., Abdurakhmanova, G.K., Burkhanov, A.U., Abdusalomova, N.B. and Ergasheva, S.T. (Ed.) Development of International Entrepreneurship Based on Corporate Accounting and Reporting According to IFRS (Advanced Series in Management, Vol. 33A), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 127-135. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1877-63612024000033A015