5G Revolution - Key Disruptive Forces to Drive Digital Transformation

5G Revolution - Key Disruptive Forces to Drive Digital Transformation Summary 5G, the fifth-generation technology standard for broadband cellular data networks, is anticipated to radically improve wireless connectivity compared to existing 4G LTE networks. Key features of 5G such as high speed, superior reliability, and negligible latency is likely to drive digital transformation into new realms. Using GlobalData's Technology Foresights model, this report identifies 50+ disruptive forces in 5G to categorize them as emerging, accelerating, and maturing innovation areas based on their rate of growth in innovation. It also casts light on key market activities of emerging innovation areas, such as 5G network slicing, 5G mmWave, and standalone 5G, on patent grants, key geographies, top players, and recent developments. The awareness, knowledge, and expertise on these innovation areas can help transform business models, decision-making, and strategic thinking that directly influence research and development, collaboration, acquisition, and investment decisions. 5G use cases, major drivers, top sectors adopting 5G technology, select innovation areas in 5G and their leading patent filers, and the disruptive potential of ten innovation areas as highlighted by patent trends, innovation drivers, recent developments, partnerships, and forecast for 5G technology. Scope - Key disruptive forces in 5G - presents the major drivers, use cases, major sectors adopting 5G, and emerging, accelerating, and maturing innovation areas with disruptive potential in 5G. - Emerging innovation areas - overview of select emerging innovation areas to capture their disruptive potential, innovation drivers, recent developments, patents trends, partnerships, and disruptive startups. - Outlook - 5G technology innovation intensity (TII) forecast till 2025 vs an average of 35 technologies. Reasons to Buy - GlobalData’s FutureTech Series Reports are aimed at capturing futuristic technologies which have the potential to disrupt tomorrow. These technologies are constantly changing, adapting, and progressing to enable a paradigm shift in our daily lives. The awareness, knowledge, and expertise of these topics help transform business models and strategic thinking with an in-depth understanding of megatrends that can directly influence patenting, collaboration, acquisition, and investment decisions.


1. Key disruptive forces in 5G - Major drivers, key use cases, top sectors adopting 5G technology, S curve highlighting the emerging, accelerating, and maturing innovation areas, 3-year vs 1-year growth in patent grants for innovation areas, and innovation areas definitions, patent grants trend, and major patent filers.
2. Emerging innovation areas - the disruptive potential of key innovation areas as highlighted by the underlying data signals involving patents, recent developments, strategic partnerships, game-changing innovations, and leading market players.
3. Outlook - 5G technology innovation intensity (TII) forecast till 2025 vs an average of 35 technologies.

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