The Top Ten emerging technologies from the World Economic Forum. Presentation given by Tim Harper at the Buy Yorkshire conference 2013

1. Top-10 Emerging
Technologies 2013
Tim Harper
Cientifica / World Economic Forum GAC-ET

2. Global Agenda Council on
Emerging Technologies
Definition of Emerging
technologies
http://reports.weforum.org/global-
agenda-council-2012/councils/
emerging-technologies/
•Technologies which arise from new knowledge, or the innovative
application of existing knowledge
•Those that lead to the rapid development of new capabilities
•Those that are projected to have significant systemic and long-
lasting economic, social and political impacts
•Those that create new opportunities for and challenges to
addressing global issues
•Technologies that have the potential to disrupt or create entire
industries

3. Global Agenda Council on
Emerging Technologies
Council Members
http://www.weforum.org/content/
global-agenda-council-emerging-
technologies-2012
• Sir David King (Chair): Founding Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford;
Senior Science Adviser, UBS; Director, Cambridge Kaspakas; Chancellor, University of Liverpool, UK
• Noubar Afeyan (Vice-chair): Senior Lecturer, MIT; Visiting Scholar, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired
Engineering, Harvard University; CEO, Flagship Ventures
• Nayef Al-Rodhan: Senior Member, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford; Director, Geopolitics of
Globalisation and Transnational Security Programme, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva
• Angela Belcher: Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, MIT
• Jeffrey Carbeck: Subject Matter Expert, Advanced Materials, Deloitte Consulting; founding Chief Technology
Officer, MC10 Inc
• Javier Garcia-Martinez: Professor of Chemistry and Director, Nanotechnology Molecular Laboratory, University
of Alicante, Spain; Co-Founder, Rive Technology
• Michael Grätzel: Professor, Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Switzerland
• Julia Greer: Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics, California Institute of Technology
• Clare Grey: Professor of Chemistry, University of Cambridge and Stony Brook University
• Tim Harper: CEO and President, Cientifica Ltd; Technology advisor to European Commission, Austria and
Singapore
• Hu Zhijian: Secretary-General of the CPC, Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development,
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
• Mark Lynas: Writer on climate change and environment; Visiting Research Associate, School of Geography and
the Environment, University of Oxford
• Kiyoshi Matsuda: Chief Innovation Officer, Corporate Strategy Office, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation
• Andrew Maynard: Director, Risk Science Center, University of Michigan
• James Wilsdon: Professor of Science and Democracy, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK

4. Global Agenda Council on
Emerging Technologies
Top-10 Emerging
Technologies 2013 -
Objectives
• Identify 10 emerging technological trends that have a realistic
potential of addressing global challenges.
• Increase awareness about the transformative power and the
promise of emerging technologies.
• By increasing the attention around these technologies, help
some of them move faster from an R&D phase to being
commercialised.
• Have a positive influence on public perception issues regarding
the unknown technologies’ potential and effects.
• By affecting public perception, provide incentives for policy-
makers to create regulatory frameworks that will facilitate the
scaling of these new technologies.

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