Implications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak for innovation: Which technologies will improve our lives?

In contrast to earlier coronavirus diseases such as SARS or MERS, whose impact was largely limited to specific regions of the world, the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, is affecting people across the globe. This article analyzes the effects of this worldwide phenomenon on certain technologies and how t...

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Autores principales: Brem, Alexander, Viardot, Eric, Nylund, Petra A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Perspectives Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7648540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33191956
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120451
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description In contrast to earlier coronavirus diseases such as SARS or MERS, whose impact was largely limited to specific regions of the world, the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, is affecting people across the globe. This article analyzes the effects of this worldwide phenomenon on certain technologies and how this may improve our lives. It presents technologies that relate directly to the treatment of the virus as well as those that have been used to adapt to living under this crisis. Given that such a pandemic will likely affect humanity again, this article also highlights how these technologies may prove helpful in the future. To this end, technological challenges, related innovation logics, and their social impacts are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-76485402020-11-09 Implications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak for innovation: Which technologies will improve our lives? Brem, Alexander Viardot, Eric Nylund, Petra A. Technol Forecast Soc Change Perspectives Paper In contrast to earlier coronavirus diseases such as SARS or MERS, whose impact was largely limited to specific regions of the world, the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, is affecting people across the globe. This article analyzes the effects of this worldwide phenomenon on certain technologies and how this may improve our lives. It presents technologies that relate directly to the treatment of the virus as well as those that have been used to adapt to living under this crisis. Given that such a pandemic will likely affect humanity again, this article also highlights how these technologies may prove helpful in the future. To this end, technological challenges, related innovation logics, and their social impacts are discussed. Elsevier Inc. 2021-02 2020-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7648540/ /pubmed/33191956 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120451 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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