EconSight Technology Taxonomy

A Complete Map of Global Innovation

15’000 Technologies in a Unique Market-Oriented Taxonomy

EconSight delivers deep, data-driven insight into technological progress across companies, countries, and regions. Our platform covers around 15,000 technologies, capturing the full breadth and depth of global innovation. These technologies are organized in an exceptionally granular five-level taxonomy, designed to make even the most complex technological landscapes transparent and actionable.

Our taxonomy combines expert curation with advanced AI, uniting human intelligence and artificial intelligence at scale. The result is a globally unique hybrid market–technology taxonomy: patent-grounded at its core and market-oriented at the surface. Guided by major megatrends and technology domains, we structure technologies into industry and technology sectors, core technology fields, functional technology segments, and highly specific technical applications—creating a clear, intuitive map of innovation.

5-level Taxonomy Structure

State-of-the-Art AI for Precise, Multi-Label Patent Assignment

Innovation moves fast, and so do we. Every day, around 7,000 new patents are published worldwide and immediately integrated into the EconSight system. Because today’s most relevant breakthrough technologies can no longer be reliably identified using patent classes and keywords alone, we have developed state-of-the-art AI algorithms that automatically and accurately assign new patents to our technologies.

Our system delivers high-precision, multi-label classification, allowing a single patent to be linked to multiple technologies. For example, a patent for AI-based X-ray image analysis is simultaneously classified under Neural Networks & Deep Learning within digitization and under medical technology in the healthcare sector. This ensures a holistic, real-world view of how technologies intersect across markets and industries.

Integrating 7’000 New Patents Every Day

Illustrative Examples of the Taxonomy

The following examples from the EconSight Taxonomy illustrate the progression from Technology Fields to Technology Applications. A Field encompasses well-established bodies of technological knowledge and invention activity. Segments are distinct subdivisions within a field, defined by functional focus, application context, or technical approach. Applications are highly specific, market-facing realizations of a segment, reflecting specialized technical implementations directly relevant to products, services, or identifiable market niches.

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