Technology sovereignty as an emerging frame for innovation policy. Defining rationales, ends and means

dc.bibliographicCitation.articleNumber104765
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue6
dc.bibliographicCitation.journalTitleResearch Policy
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume52
dc.contributor.authorEdler, Jakob
dc.contributor.authorBlind, Knut
dc.contributor.authorKroll, Henning
dc.contributor.authorSchubert, Torben
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-29T08:09:50Z
dc.date.available2023-09-29T08:09:50Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, global technology-based competition has not only intensified, but become increasingly linked to a more comprehensive type of competition between different political and value systems. The globalist assumptions of the post-Cold War era that reliable mutually beneficial agreements could be reached with all nations, regardless of ideology, have been shattered. A previously less visible, mostly political, risk dimension has been brought to the fore by recent geopolitical and geo-economic developments. Against this background, the notion of technology sovereignty has gained prominence in national and international debates, cutting across and adding to established rationales of innovation policy. In this paper, we propose and justify a concise yet nuanced concept of technology sovereignty to contribute to and clarify this debate. In particular, we argue that technology sovereignty should be conceived as state-level agency within the international system, i.e. as sovereignty of governmental action, rather than (territorial) sovereignty over something. Against this background, we define technology sovereignty not as an end in itself, but as a means to achieving the central objectives of innovation policy - sustaining national competitiveness and building capacities for transformative policies. By doing so, we position ourselves between a naive globalist position which largely neglects the risks of collaboration and the promotion of near autarky which disregards the inevitable costs of creating national redundancies and reducing cooperative interdependencies. We finish by providing a set of policy suggestions to support technology sovereignty in line with our conceptual approach.eng
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dc.identifier.citationEdler, J.; Blind, K.; Kroll, H.; Schubert, T.: Technology sovereignty as an emerging frame for innovation policy. Defining rationales, ends and means. In: Research Policy 52 (2023), Nr. 6, 104765. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104765
dc.identifier.urihttps://repo.uni-hannover.de/handle/123456789/14969
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.15488/14850
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam : Elsevier
dc.relation.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104765
dc.relation.essn1873-7625
dc.relation.issn0048-7333
dc.rights.licenseCC BY 4.0 Unporteden
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.subject.ddc300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaftde
dc.subject.ddc500 | Naturwissenschaftende
dc.subject.ddc600 | Technikde
dc.subject.otherGeo-politicseng
dc.subject.otherGlobal tradeeng
dc.subject.otherPolicy rationaleeng
dc.subject.otherSTIeng
dc.subject.otherTechnology sovereigntyeng
dc.subject.otherTransformationeng
dc.titleTechnology sovereignty as an emerging frame for innovation policy. Defining rationales, ends and meanseng
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