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    <title>Post-pandemic shifts in medical electronics GVCs and changing value dynamics amidst new digitalisation: An analysis based on Indian subsidiaries of EU-based corporations</title>
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    <description>Title: Post-pandemic shifts in medical electronics GVCs and changing value dynamics amidst new digitalisation: An analysis based on Indian subsidiaries of EU-based corporations
Authors: Francis, Smitha
Abstract: Realignments of global value chains (GVCs) are occurring at a time when the technological dynamics in manufacturing industries, including in healthcare-related industries like medical electronics, is undergoing significant changes due to the wave of new digitalisation. This study examines postpandemic changes in global medical electronics value chains through industry-level trade analysis and the GVC participation of selected Indian subsidiaries of medical electronics companies based in the European Union (EU), focusing on the implications of digitalisation and data-centric strategies for capturing value. The study finds that post-COVID-19 realignments in the industry proceeded gradually until 2023. Meanwhile, digitalisation is leading to a gradual expansion in operations by EU-based medical device multinational corporations (MNCs) in India. This is shown to be due to the increased role of software for product design and process optimisation in digitalising value chains. Leading EU-based medical device MNCs are found to be leveraging India's strengths in software design and data-analytics capabilities for co-developing their software-embedded 'health systems' and 'solutions'. However, even when software and services exports from India went up with increasing digitalisation, the shares of the EU-based lead firm groups in total revenue of the Indian subsidiaries were found to increase. This occurred through imports of software-embedded medical devices and equipment along with imports of higher-valued proprietary software platforms, health systems and the like, which are patented and marketed by the EU-based lead firms or their foreign subsidiaries back to India. It is stressed that, just like Big Tech, medical device lead firms' software platforms, when embedded in their proprietary devices and health systems, enable them de facto 'ownership' of data. Leveraging vast amounts of personal and non-personal data through different strategies enables them to keep refining and advancing the dataanalytics algorithms and software platforms embedded in their health solutions and medical devices. Given the resultant monopolisation of data and intelligence enabled by the self-reinforcing first-mover advantages of these lead firms, we highlight the need for the EU to develop a rights-based regime for data in order to ensure greater competition and innovation as well as more equitable development across the various countries participating in medical device GVCs.</description>
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    <title>Where are the growth potentials in CESEE? An illustration of sectors and products using the product space</title>
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    <description>Title: Where are the growth potentials in CESEE? An illustration of sectors and products using the product space
Authors: Guadagno, Francesca; Hanzl-Weiss, Doris; Stehrer, Robert
Abstract: This paper investigates the sectoral and export structures as well as the product spaces of 11 economies in Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE). We first employ an analysis based on revealed comparative advantages (RCAs) to identify promising sectors for future growth and then combine this analysis with a product space approach to detect related and complex products that could help these economies diversify and upgrade. The RCA analysis shows that the CESEE countries still hold a comparative advantage in manufacturing, although a slightly negative trend emerged between 2013 and 2020. Meanwhile, some services - particularly computer programming, consultancy and information service activities - have emerged as the most successful sectors to date. The product space analysis indicates that for the majority of the CESEE economies, it is possible to identify relatively complex products that could be easily targeted to spur upgrading. We also find that while we run the analysis separately for each of the 11 CESEE countries, the identified opportunities are often the same. While this is intuitively explained by the similar specialisations of these 11 countries, from a policy perspective this finding implies that each country has to deploy a battery of indicators to identify profitable and realistic niches within these broadly defined product categories.</description>
    <dc:date>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Assessing the International Interlinkages and Dependencies of the EU27 'Energy-renewables' Ecosystem</title>
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    <description>Title: Assessing the International Interlinkages and Dependencies of the EU27 'Energy-renewables' Ecosystem
Authors: Guadagno, Francesca; Stehrer, Robert
Abstract: The energy-renewables ecosystem (ERES) plays a particularly important role in the green transition. This paper analyses its relevance in EU member states and the competitiveness for the EU27 as a whole vis-àvis other global players and identifies structural dependencies and vulnerabilities. It does so by drawing on the Joint Research Centre's FIGARO dataset and detailed trade data, and by developing a novel approach that adapts input-output indicators to the analysis of industrial ecosystems. A number of key findings emerge from our analysis. First, the ERES is particularly relevant in new member states, Austria and Germany. At the global level, the EU27 is the second most important exporter after China. Second, in 2020 the EU ecosystem was dependent on imports of coal and lignite from Russia, as well as on a variety of other products from China (including medium- and high-tech electronic products). Third, analysis on the basis of detailed trade data indicates that a few products in the ERES supply chain are delivered by only a handful of countries, which could indicate some vulnerability. Most of the partner countries supply some products that may be characterised as 'risky', but China is a main source of such products.</description>
    <dc:date>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Toward innovation-driven growth: Innovation systems and policies in EU member states of Central Eastern Europe</title>
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    <description>Title: Toward innovation-driven growth: Innovation systems and policies in EU member states of Central Eastern Europe
Authors: Zavarská, Zuzana; Bykova, Alexandra; Grieveson, Richard; Guadagno, Francesca
Abstract: This study builds on our previous analyses of a new growth model for the EU member states of Central and Eastern European (CEE), focusing on fostering innovation-driven development. We aim to explain the types of innovation systems and policies that enhance domestic innovation capabilities, drawing on global best practices. A critical evaluation of the current innovation landscape in EU-CEE countries is conducted, particularly in the context of the green and digital transitions. The study assesses the strengths and weaknesses of both national innovation initiatives and opportunities provided by EU industrial and technology policy frameworks. Based on these insights, we offer actionable policy recommendations to promote innovation-driven growth, enhance productivity, and boost economic convergence over the medium term, taking into account the unique political and historical contexts of the EU-CEE countries. Additionally, we prepare country-specific briefing notes tailored to the individual development needs and opportunities of each nation.</description>
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