The European Innovation Council(EIC) has released the Tech Report 2024. The report highlights 34 emerging technologies and breakthrough innovations that could shape tomorrow’s industries, identifying early trends of new technologies that have the potential to have a major impact on Europe’s economic growth and technological independence and born to secure a place on the global stage as leaders in the next generation of breakthrough innovation.
The 34 innovations presented in the report were carefully selected through a combination of quantitative data analysis and qualitative reviews conducted by experts and EIC program managers. The analysis included funded and unfunded proposals at low technology maturity levels (TRLs) 1-4 (fundamental research to proof of concept).
In particular, emerging technologies that are critical to Europe’s future are analyzed:
- green technologies
- healthcare
- digital transformation
- industrial advances
- space exploration
Areas of interest, meanwhile, include plant-based biomanufacturing, cutting-edge drug development techniques such as targeted protein degradation, miniaturized quantum systems, and technology for very low earth orbit satellites.