The speed of technological change is restricting future visibility. There is therefore a need for reliable tools to help provide guidance. As part of its federal mandate to identify technologies at an early stage, SATW summarises and makes available the relevant knowledge. This knowledge results in valuable products such as Technology Outlook, situation analyses for the Confederation and Cantons and the Innovativeness Analysis.
There are many ways for industrial firms to exploit the opportunities that the smart factory brings. Technology Outlook helps determine which technologies are relevant here.
Patricia Deflorin, University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons
Technology Outlook is a crystal ball that shows us not only what technologies are capable of, but also identifies shortcomings that we need to address in our efforts to turn vision into reality.
Alessandro Curioni, IBM Research
