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:
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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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