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"Key Enabling Technologies" and "Smart Specialization Strategies". A Regional Analysis using Patent Data
Journal Title: SCIENZE REGIONALI  
Author/s: Anna D'Ambrosio, Sandro Montresor, Francesco Quatraro 
Year:  2016 Issue: 3 Language: Italian 
Pages:  19 Pg. 47-65 FullText PDF:  289 KB
DOI:  10.3280/SCRE2016-003003
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With an economic geography approach, we analyze whether the knowledge base of the so-called ‘key enabling technologies’ contributes to the emergence of regional ‘smart specialization strategies’. We identify these technologies and estimate their effect on the construction of new technological advantages using regional data on patent applications and on their technology classes for a panel of 26 European countries (1980-2010). Our results show that the kets have a positive ‘enabling’ effect on the construction of new specializations and that they moderate the effect of the relatedness. The net effect results positive, confirming these technologies as functional policy tools to the emergence of sss.
Keywords: Key enabling technologies; Smart Specialization strategies; revealed technological advantages.
Jel Code: R11; R58; O31

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Anna D'Ambrosio, Sandro Montresor, Francesco Quatraro, "Key Enabling Technologies" and "Smart Specialization Strategies". A Regional Analysis using Patent Data in "SCIENZE REGIONALI " 3/2016, pp. 47-65, DOI:10.3280/SCRE2016-003003

   

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