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European Competitiveness in Key Enabling Technologies

This report analyzes the competitiveness of Europe in key enabling technologies, with a focus on demand factors and the role of East Asia. It discusses the importance of metrics beyond patenting and suggests policy implications for improving European competitiveness.

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European Competitiveness in Key Enabling Technologies

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  1. European competitiveness in key enabling technologiesRemarks to Chapter Four of the 2010 European Competitiveness Report Andrea Szalavetz Budapest, 25th January, 2011

  2. What I particularly liked… • Multiplicity of research approaches: statistical analysis & extensive literature survey combined with cluster case studies • Has gone beyond the usual supply-oriented studies • Dedicates substantial space to the analysis of demand factors (lead firms; factors that facilitate technology transfer and commercialization, technology adoption and diffusion; market potential

  3. But… Some key enabling technologies are badly missing: e.g. energy technology, health technology and green technology ↓↓↓ These KETs are all related to the major social challenges Europe and its competitors are facing

  4. An important lesson of this chapter Astonishing East Asian performance In a way this is not new, but … Current data, comparisons about volume speed of catching-up with respect to science, technology, and innovations

  5. Should Europe be afraid? Be at least aware of these tendencies ! Europe should engage in systematic co-operation with Asian players: monitor their efforts and initiate technology-seeking acquisitions. Europe should now take the role, East Asia used to perform so successfully for decades!

  6. Is the metric adequate? In principle, patenting activity is a key metric of technology generation… The question, we need to tackle is not whether patenting is a good proxy of technology generation, but rather whether new fundamental discoveries proxied by patenting can be applied as an adequate metric of competitiveness! If a region is world leader in patenting in a selected technological field, does that imply that it is the most competitive?

  7. “Competitiveness in a key enabling technology” is broader than patenting performance ! We have to refine and detail what we mean by European competitiveness in key enabling technologies. What do we want to achieve, and what do we want to improve?

  8. Policy implications Fumio Kodama’s 1995 book: Emerging Patterns of Innovation – Sources of Japan’s Technological Edge

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