The document discusses disruptive innovations, emphasizing that they often stem from new business models rather than just technology. It highlights predictions for disruptive innovations from 2020 to 2025 across sectors like energy, biomedical, and ICT, indicating significant economic impacts. The findings suggest a consensus on which technologies may disrupt markets, while noting that some well-developed technologies could still yield potential for innovation.

1. Disruption Trends
Jose-Maria Sanjose
josem.sanjose@gmail.com

2. Disruptive Innovations
Disruptive Innovations are based frequently
on technology but they actually mean a new
business model.

3. Disruptive Technology
The term "disruptive technology" has been
widely used as a synonym of "disruptive
innovation", but the latter is now preferred,
because market disruption has been found to be
a function usually not of technology itself but
rather of its changing application. Sustaining
innovations are typically innovations in
technology, whereas disruptive innovations
change entire markets. [wikipedia]

4. Disruptive Innovations
"Generally,
disruptive
innovations
were
technologically straightforward, consisting of offthe-shelf components put together in a product
architecture that was often simpler than prior
approaches. They offered less of what customers in
established markets wanted and so could rarely be
initially employed there. They offered a different
package of attributes valued only in emerging
markets remote from, and unimportant to, the
mainstream.”
[Christensen, The Innovator’s dilemma]

5. Reports on Disruptive Innovations
Finishing 2013 a lot of companies (Mackinsey,
KPMG, Citi, MIT, … see complete references at
the end) are doing reports on disruptive
innovations for the period 2020-2025
This document summarize from a crowd
perspective findings about the future of
disruptive innovations

6. Number of disruptive innovations
predicted 2020-2025 by sector
Energy
14
12
Transport
10
ITC
8
6
4
2
Other applied sciences
Biomedical
0
Finantials
Industrial
Other applied engineering

7. Most predicted disruptive innovations
2020-2025
Consensus in disruptive innovations
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0

8. Estimated potential economic impact of technologies across
sized applications in 2015 $ trillion, annual
Renewable energy
Advanced oil and gas exploration and recovery
Advanced materials
3-D printing
Energy storage
Next generation genomics
Autonomous and near-autonomous vehicles
Advanced robotics
Cloud
Internet of things
Automation o knowledge work
Mobile Internet
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16

9. Findings
• Energy, Biomedical an ICT are sectors with
widest perspectives
• Some technologies are so developed, e.g.
Mobile, but potential disruption innovation
remains

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11. References
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Christensen, Clayton M. (1997), The innovator's dilemma: when new technologies
cause great firms to fail, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Harvard Business School
Press, ISBN 978-0-87584-585-2.
Goldman The 8 Extraordinary Technologies Forcing Businesses To Adapt Or Die
CITI: These 10 Technologies Are Completely Changing The World
Top 12 technology trends for 2013 highlighted in new Technology Outlook from
Sogeti
Mobilizing innovation: The evolving landscape of disruptive technologies from
KPMG
5 technologies that will disrupt the world in 2013 from CEA
Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global
economy from Mackinsey
Disruptive Technologies Winners and losers from game changing innovation from
HSBC
10 emerging Technologies that will change your world from MIT