Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/236681 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9139
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Aspirations towards technological sovereignty increasingly pervade the political debate. Yet, an ambiguous definition leaves the exact goal of those aspirations and the policies to fulfill them unclear. This leaves room for partly particularly negative interpretations, such as equating the concept with a strive for autarky, nationalism, and the roll-back of globalization. We develop a competence-based definition of technological sovereignty, which puts innovation policy at the core of fulfilling sovereignty aspirations. Moreover, we show how our definition realigns technological sovereignty with international cooperation and trade. Two case studies illustrate how innovation policy might be used to achieve technological sovereignty.
Subjects: 
technological sovereignty
innovation policy
international cooperation
Industrie 4.0
EUV lithography
JEL: 
O32
O33
O38
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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