hard tech
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- Technology that requires big breakthroughs and has a high barrier of entry.
- Synonym: deep tech
- 2021, Trond Arne Undheim, Future Tech: How to Capture Value from Disruptive Industry Trends, Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 48:
- Emerging tech (which relates to other concepts such as frontier tech, deep tech, hard tech, sci-fi tech, exponential tech, or tough tech) is technology that still has an adoption curve into the future.