Focus on Critical Key Technologies: The Race for Leadership in Industry and Technology Policy

Key Messages

• Technological sovereignty can be defined as the ability of a country to guarantee access at all times to the key technologies that are necessary to meet social priorities and needs
• Despite having different competences, the countries analyzed focus largely on the same fields of technology that are expected to generate value in the future
• Measures to promote technological sovereignty are heterogenous across countries and range from the promotion of R&D activities to subsidies for setting up industrial plants
• Systematic predictions of technological trends would enable policymakers to deal with new technologies at an early stage and adapt policy measures and institutions