Trends Identified
Infectious Disease Pathogen Detection Robot System
As it is expected that the outbreak risk and frequency of new infectious diseases will increase, quick diagnosis and response strategy is critical. Therefore, revolutionary technology that can reduce the side effects of current contact method is necessary. As a result, the importance of unmanned diagnostic technology will increase, which involves a series of processing (from clinical specimen processing to pathogenic organism detection) using a non-contact method.
2011
KISTEP 10 Emerging Technologies 2011
South Korea, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)
Widely Affecting Antimicrobial Agents
The necessity of the technology that can effectively cope with new epidemics including super bacteria will increase. Therefore, widely affecting antimicrobial agents will appear as important technology.
2011
KISTEP 10 Emerging Technologies 2011
South Korea, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)
Polymerase Chain Reaction for Site Diagnosis
The technology of examining the gene on the spot using the gene amplification technology PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction). The DNA and RNA containing the gene information are extracted from saliva or blood, and amplified to check infection. This method was spotlighted as the quickest and accurate method since the outbreak of novel swine-origin influenza. Its application is expanding day by day, including respiratory disease check, venereal disease check, drug resistance test, and somatic mutation test for cancer diagnosis.
2011
KISTEP 10 Emerging Technologies 2011
South Korea, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)
Cancer bio marker analysis technology
The technology that analyzes bio markers representing the characteristics of various cancers from clinical samples, to provide the information on the existence, type, onset of disease path, and progress of the cancer. If the multiple cancer diagnosis kit using the cancer bio marker technology is developed and used for clinical tests, social and economic loss from cancer could be reduced significantly, because the incidence of cancer and death rate from cancer can be decreased.
2012
KISTEP 10 Emerging Technologies 2012
South Korea, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)
Real-time automatic speech translation technology
The spoken language automatic machine translation considers the characteristics of the spoken language, such as omission of the subject, inversion and ambiguity, unlike document translation and is promoted by the automatic machine translation technology. Automatic interpretation technology is important in narrowing the input and output difference between speech recognition and automatic translation using the situation/context information.
2012
KISTEP 10 Emerging Technologies 2012
South Korea, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)
Spin transistor
As a new type of electronic engineering technology, it uses both electron charge characteristics and quantum-mechanical spin physical development at the same time. The spin transistor has the property of non-volatility (unique property of spin), high-speed and ultra-low power. This next-generation electron device can overcome the technical limitations of the current electron devices, and can be widely applied to high-density large-capacity information processing and storage.
2012
KISTEP 10 Emerging Technologies 2012
South Korea, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)
Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC)
Microbial fuel cell is a bio-electrochemical device that directly converts chemical energy in organic matters into electric power, using the catalytic action of microorganism. If sewage/wasted water or waste is processed with this microbial fuel cell, organic pollutants can be utilized as the sustainable raw material that can generate electric power. The sewage/wasted water processing cost can be saved, and economic gain can be obtained by electric power generation.
2012
KISTEP 10 Emerging Technologies 2012
South Korea, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)
Universal flu vaccine
The development of universal flu vaccine that can prevent influenza could improve the quality of life of the people who suffer from flu every year. The universal flu vaccine related technology needs to identify the certain parts of antigen that is well kept during the evolution process to be practically applied widely, in order to optimize its antigenicity for development.
2012
KISTEP 10 Emerging Technologies 2012
South Korea, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)
Superconductivity power transmission technology
The superconductivity power transmission technology is suitable for the green energy strategy that can solve the power supply issue of the major metropolitan cites. Using superconducting cables with high temperature superconductive conductor, it is possible to distribute electric power with large capacity and high efficiency while being eco-friendly.This technology is expected to play a pivotal role in the 21st century power grid, and will be developed as the revolutionary technology that can solve the world’s energy problem, by establishing the global power network that distributes electric power among countries and continents.
2012
KISTEP 10 Emerging Technologies 2012
South Korea, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)
Digital holography technology
Holography is the technology that records or reproduces the distribution of light, which is reflected or diffracted by the actual image. This technology completely reproduces the actual image to give a three-dimensional effect to viewers. Digital holography is implemented by using the electronic devices and optoelectronic devices, and the holographic data is processed by the optical information processing technique. Digital holography is the core base technology that can be applied and used in various industries, such as culture, arts, display, measurement industry, healthcare, and academia.
2012
KISTEP 10 Emerging Technologies 2012
South Korea, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)