Final report on the collection of patents and business indicators by economic sector: Societal Grand Challenges and Key Enabling Technologies

Rainer Frietsch (), Andreas Kladroba, Paresa Markianidou, Peter Neuhausler, Viola Peter, Julien Ravet, Olivier Rothengatter and Julia Schneider
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Rainer Frietsch: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

No JRC109299, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: In this report, information is provided on business R&D expenditures and patenting structures within Key Enabling Technologies and Societal Grand Challenges. The main challenge hereby was to estimate BERD, value added and employment at the technological level of KETs and SGCs as these indicators are only available at the sectoral (NACE 2-digit) level. The employed method uses the (weighted) distribution of technology-specific patents per sector to re-allocate BERD and value added by technology fields. While the strong correlation between patents and R&D expenditures is a proof of the use of this approach for BERD, the connection between patents and value added is much smaller. For this indicator the estimated values are therefore to be cautiously interpreted. Yet, technology specific data on value added is not available. Variations across countries, could partly be taken into account by employing four country groups.

Keywords: KET; SGC; BERD; R&D expenditure; patents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 109 pages
Date: 2017-12
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