Abstract
This paper aims to map the current knowledge base centred on robotics and AI technologies. These technologies are investigated both as a whole and distinguishing core and related innovations, along a 4-level core-periphery architecture. Merging patent applications with the Orbis IP firm-level database allows us to put forward a twofold analysis based on industry of activity and geographic location. In a nutshell, results show that: (i) rather than representing a technological revolution, the new knowledge base is strictly linked to the previous technological paradigm; (ii) the new knowledge base is characterised by a considerable-but not impressively widespread-degree of pervasiveness; (iii) robotics and AI are strictly related, converging (particularly among the related technologies and in more recent times) and jointly shaping a new knowledge base that should be considered as a whole, rather than consisting of two separate GPTs; (iv) the US technological leadership turns out to be confirmed
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 779-813 |
Number of pages | 35 |
Journal | The Journal of Technology Transfer |
Volume | 48 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 7 Jan 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2023 |
JEL classifications
- o33 - "Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes"
- o31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Keywords
- Robotics
- Artificial intelligence
- General purpose technology
- Technological paradigm
- Industry 4
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- RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT
- PRODUCTIVITY