Your task

All technology innovation takes place within a context - the context is a complex

combination of existing knowledge, individual and company ability, and the competitive and

socio-political environment within which individuals and companies forge their existence.

Technology innovation is driven in part by demand, as well as the necessity for business to

meet that demand. Technology is "borrowed" from some sectors and re-shaped by

innovators to suit the conditions and context of the industry in which they see a problem

that needs solving, and therefore a business opportunity if there are enough customers in

need of this solution.

Your task is to undertake an analysis of the different "types of technology" that are

evidencedin the introduction to this document, andto present a discussionpaperthat

provides a synthesized evaluation of:

thedifferenttypesoftechnologyevident(State-of-the-art,core,leveraging,

supporting, and emerging technologies);

thelevelof change thesetechnologiesintroduce(radical change, and/or

incremental change);

howtechnological,political,regulatory,social,anddemographicchangesgenerate

opportunities for technological innovation.

and finally, what you believe is the market support (the likely pattern of product

adoption - the S-curve)thatislikely to be experienced in respect of each of these

products(you will have to support your claims with reasoning; don'tjust assert a

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