General Studies III · Topic
Frontier technologies and intellectual property
Official syllabus
Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights.
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What this covers
The syllabus groups diverse technologies because each changes what can be sensed, computed, manufactured or biologically modified.
Key ideas
- Information technology
- Space
- Computers and robotics
- Nanotechnology
- Biotechnology
- IPR
Subtopics 6
- 01Information technologyInformation technology represents, stores, processes and transmits data.
- 02Space technologySpace technology includes launch, spacecraft, ground systems and applications.
- 03Computers and roboticsComputing executes instructions on data; robotics adds sensing, actuation and control in the physical world.
- 04NanotechnologyNanotechnology studies and engineers materials whose small-scale structure gives useful properties.
- 05BiotechnologyBiotechnology uses biological systems, organisms or components to produce knowledge, processes or products.
- 06Intellectual property rightsIntellectual property rights protect specified creations under different legal regimes.