Trends Identified

Asteroid Mining
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Deep Space Industries (US), Planetary Resources (US), Made in Space (US).
2018
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Crypto Currencies
Example of Organizationsactive in the area:Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Bitcoin (Japan), Ripple (US), Litecoin (US).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
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Concentrated Solar power
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Solarreserve (US), Abengoa (Spain), North China Power Engineering (China), Shanghai Electric (China), Zhejiang Supcon Solar (China), NWEPDI (China).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
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Predictive policing
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: PredPol (US), ECM Universe (US).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
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Micro-Scale ambient energy harvesting
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Pavegen (UK), ECEEN (China).
2018
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Airborne wind turbines
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Google/Alphabet (US), Joby Energy (US), Altaeros (US), Kitegen (Italy), Enerkite (Germany).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
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Avatar companions
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Pullstring (US), Amazon (US), Alphabet/Google (US), Nintendo (Japan), Invisible Girlfriend/Boyfriend (US).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
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Metallic hydrogen energy storage
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: NASA (US).
2018
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Smart glasses & contact lenses
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Alphabet/Verily (US), Amazon (US), Vuzix (US), Everysight (Israel).
2018
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Pollution eating buildings
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Elegant Embellishments (Germany), iNova (Spain), Studio Roosegaarde (Netherlands), Prosolve e (Germany).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London