ISE
Status: ended
Title
Innovation System and European Innovation (ISE): Technological Entry - Diversification vs. New Innovators
Assignment
The European Commission/DG XII
Coordinator
Franco Malerba
Keywords
technological diversification
innovative entry
Research outline and main results
The Innovation Systems and European Integration (ISE) Project was funded by the Targeted Socio-Economic Research (TSER) programme of the European Commission (DG XII), as part of the Fourth Framework Programme. It was coordinated by Professor Charles Edquist of the Systems of Innovation Research Programme (SIRP), Linköping University (Sweden).
CESPRI coordinated Research Subproject 3.2.5 (Technological Entry: Diversification vs. New Innovators).
In particular CESPRI examined entry into new technologies, where entrants could be either new innovators or established ones, diversifying into new fields. CESPRI's analysis is contained in three related reports.
1) "Patterns of Technological Entry and Exit: Evidence from France, Germany, Italy and the UK".
2) "Technological vs. Industrial Dynamics: Evidence from Telecommunications, Audiovisual, and Information Technology".
3) "What are the Main Quantitative Features of Technological Diversification in Europe, United States and Japan?".
Report n° 1 describes comprehensively the innovation activities of the above-mentioned countries, analysing the relationship between specialisation, entry by new innovators entry by diversification, and the persistence of innovative activity itself.
Reports n° 2 and 3 provide some evidence on innovative demography and technological diversification. The first focuses on a selected number of technological fields, building a few homogeneous technological micro-classes. A study on economic data (turnover, foundation year, activity class) of those classes connects closely innovative with entrepreneurial demography.
In the last report, an in-depth research on technological "distance" is developed, which stresses the dependence of innovators' technological diversification patterns on the similarity among patent classes and produces results which are highly consistent with the findings of the existing literature.
Researchers involved in the project
S. Breschi, F. Lissoni
Last updated June 12, 2009
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