Through a Glass, Darkly: Mapping Emerging Technologies and Their Supply Chains

Identifying emerging technologies is critical to governments, the private sector, and researchers, but these groups lack a shared analytical approach when it comes to assessing the trajectories of new technologies. To better calibrate efforts to protect and promote emerging technologies, supply chain security research provides a mature, relevant analytical framework.

This report offers policymakers a template to map emerging technology supply chains using two tools developed by CSET’s Emerging Technology Observatory: the Map of Science and the Supply Chain Explorer.