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

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

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

Classification and Topics

• Classification: 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
• Subject: Key Enabling Technologies ; Smart Specialization Strategies ; Revealed Technological Advantages

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Montresor, Sandro ; Quatraro, Francesco
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
• (where): Seville
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/202157
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET