Key enabling technologies
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KEY ENABLING
TECHNOLOGIES
Budapest, 25 January 2011
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Do you know which
technologies can radically
change the future of EU
manufacturing?
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Definition of key enabling technologies
(KETs)
• Characteristics:
Knowledge-intensive
Associated with high R&D intensity
Rapid innovation cycles
High capital expenditure
Highly skilled workforce
• KETs enable process, goods and service innovation
across the economy and are of systemic relevance
• KETs are multidisciplinary
• KETs can assist technology leaders in other fields
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KETs and the economy
• KETs enable producers to use labour, capital, energy
and other inputs more efficiently
increase
productivity
• Open up new markets
• Scale of the effects on productivity from a KET will
depend on
The speed and breadth of its diffusion across
sectors and users
To what extent its use give rise to network effects
How mature it is (technological applications,
innovative solutions)
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Key enabling technologies
• Competitiveness in 6 technologies:
Nanotechnology
Micro and nanoelectronics
Industrial biotechnology
Photonics
Advanced materials
Advanced manufacturing technologies
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It is the applications of KETs that will
create jobs, growth and wealth
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Uncertain market potential estimates
Nanotechnology
Current market
size in bn USD
Future market size
(2012/15) in bn USD
Expected compound
annual growth rate
Lower
bound
Lower
bound
Lower
bound
Upper
bound
12
150
Upper
bound
Upper
bound
27
3100
16%
46%
Micro and
nanoelectronics
250
300
350
5%
13%
Industrial
biotechnology
90
125
150
6%
9%
Photonics
230
480
8%
Advanced
Materials
100
150
6%
Advanced
manufacturing
technologies
150
200
5%
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KET cluster development, ranging from
emerging to post-mature KETs
Biotechnology:
Micro-electronics: Cambridge & Bay Area
Grenoble
Photonics: Québec
Micro-electronics:
Ottawa
Advanced materials: Changsha
Nanotech: Kyoto
Photonics: Berlin-Brandenburg
Nanotech: Northrhine Westfalia
Advanced materials: Wallonia
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Europe, North America and East Asia
dominate KET patenting activity
• European share of patents: around 1/3 in most KETs
Higher in advanced manufacturing technologies
and industrial biotech
Lower
in
nanotechnology,
micro
and
nanoelectronics and photonics
• Most European KET patent applications made by
German applicants (more than 43%), followed by
French (15%) and UK applicants (11%)
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EU approach to KETs: a long-term research
policy and supply of skills
• Patents do not automatically lead to applications – KETs
need to be applied in order to have impact
• Each KET needs a competitive manufacturing base in
Europe
• Integrated, coordinated approach to KETs needed, linking
actors from various policy domains at local, regional,
national and international levels
• Interaction between research and development,
manufacture and application is needed, combined with
policies promoting KET skills by means of crossdisciplinary higher education and training.
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• Thank you
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for your attention!
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