Is coronavirus accelerating trends in emerging technologies? How might these trends affect global employment and immigration patterns

Background

Our remit is global and our interests correspondingly wide. The below are indicative rather than fully comprehensive questions of relevance for our work and are arranged into ten overlapping categories.

The dynamic nature of world events and diplomatic work around them mean that we often need research based insights to help anticipate, shape, manage and benefit from unfolding developments and possible futures. The synthesised expertise of researchers can help us make judgements in a policy environment where experimental trials and replicable results are often impossible or inappropriate.

Because time can be of the essence we value emerging results and insights shared via updates, short events, websites and similar, in advance of peer reviewed articles.

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Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

FCO Areas of research interest coronavirus COVID 19 update May 2020 GOVUK

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  • Mapping the production, diffusion and drivers of future technologies

    We propose to map and track the state of technological change in the UK, understand its drivers, impacts and help to improve the UK's productivity record via our collaboration and engagement with industry and policymaker...

    Funded by: UKRI

    Lead research organisation: University of Warwick

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on mapping and tracking the state of technological change, including emerging technologies such as AI and blockchain, which are relevant to the question about trends in emerging technologies. The authors have the necessary expertise to answer the question.

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