This literature review is part of the FUTURINNOV project—a collaboration between the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency—, which aims at spotting signals of emerging technologies and some breakthrough innovations. This literat...
Technology Monitoring and Assessment (TMA) is a crucial activity to inform decision-makers and orient technology investments and governance. Since the 1970s, multiple methods and approaches have been developed worldwide, increasingly addressing complexity, uncertainty, and ethical dilemmas....
This policy brief focusses on technology monitoring and assessment (TMA). TMA is important for R&I policy orientation, and has significant socioeconomic impacts, especially in terms of emerging technologies. After outlining the advantages and features of TMA systems, this brief compares the TMA ...
In the last quarter of 2020, the European medicines agencies network – comprising national competent authorities (NCAs) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) – published its five-year strategy covering the period from 2021 to 2025. The strategy (EMANS 2025) has now undergone an update to cover...
This report, part of the FUTURINNOV project—a collaboration between the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency—provides the second literature review of third-party reports, in a continuous workstream that surfaces periodically cr...
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as the European Galileo and the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) become ubiquitous tools with enormously impact on our economy and society. Energy supply networks, transport infrastructures, telecommunications, cloud infrastructures, and finan...
This report provides a literature review of publications authored by numerous external organisations. It summarises 34 signals and trends of emerging technologies and breakthrough innovations across the 11 primary categories of a taxonomy defined by the European Innovation Council (EIC). The aut...
Airborne transmission is considered one of the most common ways of transmitting respiratory viruses. The reach of airborne pathogens and persistence of aerosolized particles suspended in the air are a significant concern for the spread of pandemic and seasonal respiratory diseases. This is parti...
Biometrics is a broad and diverse scientific field, where physics, engineering, medicine, psychology and more come into contact. Having to deal with such a level of heterogeneity, Frontex has highlighted the importance of categorising the main biometric technologies with potential to find applic...
In the coming years, emerging technologies will fundamentally change border management, creating significant opportunities for making the journey of travellers to Europe easier, safer and hassle-free, in a word “seamless”. In particular, biometric technologies have a strong potential to pave the...
