OK Computer: The Creation and Integration of AI in Europe

Bernardo S. Buarque, Ronald Davies, Dieter Kogler and Ryan Hynes

No 201911, Working Papers from School of Economics, University College Dublin

Abstract: This paper investigates the creation and integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) patents in Europe. We create a panel of AI patents over time, mapping them into regions at the NUTS2 level. We then proceed by examining how AI is integrated into the knowledge space of each region. In particular, we find that those regions where AI is most embedded into the innovation landscape are also those where the number of AI patents is largest. This suggests that to increase AI innovation it may be necessary to integrate it with industrial development, a feature central to many recent AI-promoting policies.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Geography of Innovation; Knowledge Space; Technological Change; Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O33 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2019-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-big, nep-geo, nep-ind, nep-ino, nep-pay, nep-sbm, nep-tid and nep-ure
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