Key Enabling Technologies and Smart Specialization Strategies. European Regional Evidence from patent data

Arbeitspapier

The paper aims at investigating whether Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) can have a role in facilitating regional Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3). Drawing on the economic geography approach to S3, we formulate some hypotheses about the impact that KETs-related knowledge can have on the construction of new regional technological advantages (RTAs). By crossing regional data on patent applications, in KETs-mapped classes of the International Patent Classification (IPC), with a number of regional economic indicators, we test these hypotheses on a panel of 26 European countries over the period 1980-2010. KETs show a positive impact on the construction of new RTAs, pointing to a new “enabling” role for them. KETs also exert a negative moderating role on the RTAs impact of the density of related pre-existing technologies, pointing to the KETs capacity of making the latter less binding in pursuing S3. Overall, the net-impact of KETs is positive, pointing to a new case for plugging KETs in the S3 policy tool-box.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IPTS Working Papers on Corporate R&D and Innovation ; No. 05/2015

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes ; Regional Development Planning and Policy ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Thema: Key Enabling Technologies ; Smart Specialization Strategies ; Revealed Technological Advantages

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Montresor, Sandro ; Quatraro, Francesco
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
• (wo): Seville
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/202157
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ