Key technology

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Key Technology ( English key technology, technology bottleneck ) is in the economy , a technology that is not only in a field of work is applicable, but a market potential for many industries has.

General

Linguistically, the compound consists of “key” and “technology”. The defining word key is to be understood as a key role for technologies that either have a significant sales market themselves, that are significant for opening up new sales markets, or that are the prerequisite for realizing another technology. Harry Nick sees key technology as a pictorial expression for the designation of the peculiarities of revolutionary scientific and technical innovations, which are labor, energy and material-saving. Broad application potentials are therefore essential to the concept.

A party congress of the SED also recognized the importance of key technologies in the GDR because they are "of fundamental importance for securing stable economic growth over the long term and increasing labor productivity ".

Types of Technologies

With regard to the product life cycle and the market potential , three types of technology can be distinguished, namely pacemaker technologies , basic technologies and key technologies. Pacemaker technologies are problem solutions and are still in the early development stage of product development , basic technologies are in the maturity phase of their life cycle, key technologies are subject to a phase of market growth . Finally, “killer technologies” are technologies that, when they are ready for the market, replace existing technologies and key technologies as substitutes .

A technology becomes a key technology when it changes from the pacemaker technology into the growth phase and with it competitive and market success can be achieved. An important feature of the key technology is that it not only has an impact on the developed technology itself, but can also be used in other specialist areas or extends to them.

Types of key technologies

The key technologies include in particular biotechnology , bionics , electromobility , energy technology , information and communication technology , artificial intelligence , mechatronics , microelectronics , microtechnology , nanotechnology , robotics or water and wastewater technology . They all extend into other subject areas and often also affect different economic sectors and branches of industry. For example, the fields of application of biotechnology are wide: energy , agriculture , food , pharmaceuticals or the environment . There is market potential here not only for large companies , but also for small and medium-sized companies .

economic aspects

Key technologies have a high innovative potential and have a broad impact on the economic structure . Key technologies can trigger a regional or sectoral structural change and thus change the economic structure. For example, the digital revolution, the digitization triggered by digital technology and computers , has brought about a change in almost all areas of life and has led to a digital world , similar to how the industrial revolution led to industrial society 200 years earlier . That is why there is talk of a “third industrial revolution” or, in technical terms, of a “microelectronic revolution”.

Patented key technologies give the provider a competitive edge over the competition, which these technologies cannot take over free of charge due to patent protection . Key technology companies can take advantage of market growth in a monopoly form to increase their market share and potentially become market leaders . Companies with key technologies can also become technology leaders. The strategic planning must take into account the growing importance of basic and key technologies.

Key technologies, which in combination with other technologies can trigger a catalyst for innovations in many specialist areas, are also called key enabling technology  (KET). The computer technology , for example, is considered KET because it has enabled the technical aspects, fundamental changes in all sectors of economy and society.

See also

Web links

Commons : Technology  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Key technology  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

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  4. ^ Directive of the XI. SED party congress for the years 1986–1990 . XI. SED party congress from April 17 to 21, 1986. 1986, p. 48.
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