Enabling technology
Under Enabling technology (German mostly enabling technology ) refers to technologies (or material resources or equipment) that produce significant by itself or in combination with other technologies leaps in performance and capabilities of the user. It is characteristic that after the development of the technology the sector experiences a radical innovation and transformation.
Examples of enabling technologies are historically lighting a fire , book printing in combination with papermaking , or contemporary antibiotics in medicine, or computers and the Internet . Modern terms for certain groups of enabling technologies are also new technologies (in technology), new materials or new media .
The term key enabling technology (KET) is often used when it comes to recognized or suspected enabling technologies that could serve as an initiator or catalyst ( key technology ) of a far-reaching complex of innovations that go beyond the matter of the application itself. As such, the steam engine , for example, has historically been considered an energy source for the industrial revolution with all its consequences, including political and social consequences, or currently nanotechnology or the 3D printer , the diverse potential of which cannot yet be assessed in application. The expression Industry 4.0 has become commonplace for the effects of the key enabling technologies Computer / Internet in their application in technology and production .
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Individual evidence
- ^ " Equipment and / or methodology that, alone or in combination with associated technologies, provides the means to generate giant leaps in performance and capabilities of the user. " Enabling technology . businessdictionary.com (translation: Wikipedia).
- ↑ Key Enabling Technologies: What are KETs and why are they important? ec.europa.eu