Specialisation, Diversification and the Ladder of Green Technology Development

Perruchas, François; Consoli, Davide; Barbieri, Nicolò

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3336857

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“…Previous studies in EEG suggest that countries (regions) are more likely to develop new technologies related to their existing local knowledge base (Boschma, 2017;Boschma et al, 2017a;Content and Frenken, 2016;Hidalgo et al, 2018). A similar pattern is also observed in the development of clean technologies (Montresor and Quatraro, 2019;Perruchas et al, 2019;Tanner, 2016Tanner, , 2014van den Berge et al, 2019). This chapter calculates technological specialisations of countries, technological relatedness and international knowledge spillovers in inventor networks using patent data.…”

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“…The emergence of new technological paradigms offers windows of opportunities for countries and regions to catch up (Perez and Soete, 1988). Several empirical studies in recent EEG literature also confirm the related diversification process in clean technologies (Montresor and Quatraro, 2019;Perruchas et al, 2019;Santoalha and Boschma, 2019;Tanner, 2016Tanner, , 2014van den Berge et al, 2019), providing evidences on how countries and regions can catch up in the recent clean technological paradigm (Mathews, 2013;Perez, 2016Perez, , 2013.…”

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“…Countries (and regions) are more likely to develop new technologies that are related to their existing knowledge bases (Boschma, 2017;Hidalgo et al, , 2007Petralia et al, 2017). This related diversification process at the local level is also observed in the development of sustainable technologies (Montresor and Quatraro, 2019;Perruchas et al, 2019;Tanner, 2016;van den Berge et al, 2019).…”

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“…Van den Berge et al (2019) even show that instead of traditional thinking that the presence of dirty technologies may hamper the development of clean technologies, some clean technologies even develop out the capabilities of dirty technologies. Moreover, Perruchas et al (2019) find that the complexity is not an obstacle for the development of clean technologies, even for emerging countries. Countries move along cumulative paths of specialisation, and towards more complex clean technologies.…”

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“…This latter concern is especially suited to regional level studies, where the issue emphasized from rather different vision––varieties and volume of technology resources are the key for supporting regional innovation in ecological sense and in qualitative economy terms. Relevant studies further reveal importance of such innovation eco‐system view, as well as environmental friendly view, for example, Perruchas, Consoli, and Barbieri (2020) find key drivers of cross‐country diversification and specialization effect using patent data on 63 countries over the period 1971–2012, suggesting that existing technology competencies can be vital for those countries diversifying toward greener technologies, while technically cumulative paths from more mature green technologies may contribute only to technical specialization. Views on regions for technology diversification usually focus on future development, no matter in terms of environmental concerns, or on economic development potentiality.…”

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What does the character of urban technology reveals about convergence versus divergence of innovation in China?—A technical lens to evaluate regional economic development

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Xue

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Regional technology characters (TCs) are studied in this paper to find whether innovation in Chinese cities leads to technology converging, or technology divergence, in both the intra-city and inter-city scales, with which regional economic development strength may be better explained. Based on a literature review on the subject, a two-dimensional research framework and relevant technical lens are designed to clarify TC in cities composed of parameters on Technology Strength (TS) versus Technology Angle (TA). By applying Principle Component Analysis, a technical lens is made possible based on extracted parameters on three integrated technology dimensions for measuring TSs and TAs over 117 Chinese sample cities with invention patent data covering 21 technology field between 2005/2006 and 2015/2016. Technology convergence versus divergence are examined for 28/24 sample cities beyond average score, and the research findings indicate that technology divergence in Chinese cities can be confirmed at the inter-city level, even partially at the intra-city level. This finding holds for most sample cities with fairly large and modest TSs, while intra-city technology converging is significant, especially for larger sized TS samples, however they also differ on different dimensions. This may imply that urban economic development in China is technical based and differentiated. 1632 | CHEN Et al. 1 | INTRODUCTION TO REGIONAL-BASED TECHNOLOGY DIVERSIFICATION STUDIES Technology diversification can lead to lots of advantages (Markides, 1997), previously shown mostly at the company level. Research has been conducted to indicate that firms diversifying their technological bases can exploit economies of scope in R&D and technological knowledge, in terms of diversifying key knowledge resource across multiple product lines (Miller, 2006; Panzar & Willig, 1977; Teece, 1982), which clearly implies that the advantages are mainly on diversified use of the technologies. Another advantage of technology diversification can be shown with the technical ecosystem view, as technological diversification (spreading resources generated from different technological fields) allows firms (and similarly groups of firms in certain regions) to reduce their risks from their R&D input and to enhance adaptability to the fast-changing technological environment (Garcia-Vega, 2006). This trend is especially true under the emerging and prevailing trends of technological fusion since 1990's in many high-tech sectors such as in telecommunications, chemicals and biotechnologies, and auto-industries (Gambardella & Torrisi, 1998; Suzuki & Kodama, 2004). This ecosystem perspective, however, is different from the former one which is only focusing on effectively use of limited technology resource. This latter concern is especially suited to regional level studies, where the issue emphasized from rather different vision-varieties and volume of technology resources are the key for supporting regional innovation in ecological sense and in qualitative economy terms. Releva...

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Regional Differences in the Generation of Green Technologies: The Role of Local Recombinant Capabilities and Academic Inventors

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Scandura

2021

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This paper investigates the association between region-level recombinant capabilities and the generation of green technologies (GTs), together with their interplay with the intensity of academic involvement in innovation dynamics. The analysis focuses on Italian NUTS 3 regions, over the period 1998-2009. We show that the local capacity to introduce novel combinations is positively and strongly associated to the generation of GTs, while the involvement of academic inventors in local innovation dynamics shows an interesting compensatory role when local contexts lack such capacity.

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Specialisation, Diversification and the Ladder of Green Technology Development

Cited by 14 publications

References 71 publications

Place-dependence of renewable energy technologies

Place-dependence of renewable energy technologies

What does the character of urban technology reveals about convergence versus divergence of innovation in China?—A technical lens to evaluate regional economic development

Regional Differences in the Generation of Green Technologies: The Role of Local Recombinant Capabilities and Academic Inventors

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