Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025

Remarkable innovations emerge from research labs every year, creating unprecedented opportunities to address humanity's greatest challenges.

The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025, developed in collaboration with Frontiers, highlights 10 innovations with the potential to reshape industries and societies. Based on expert nominations and rigorous foresight evaluation, the report spans from structural battery composites and engineered living therapeutics to osmotic power and AI-generated content watermarking. Each entry explores scientific progress, strategic impact, and ecosystem readiness across five dimensions.

The findings provide leaders with a forward-looking lens to harness transformative technologies for sustainable growth, resilience and inclusive innovation.