Technological Innovation in Greece: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Future for IMETI 2012

摘要

This paper examines the development of technological innovation in Greece based on patent data. It is based on the description and measurement of the new and original technologies that were first developed by Greek inventors and then been granted by the Greek patent office between 1988 and 2010. The study relies on the theoretical and empirical framework of the importance of innovation in technological development and on its description and measurement through relative patent records, which have been considered and accepted to be good and reliable innovation indicators. This paper starts by discussing the existing theoretical and empirical evidence of both technology and innovation in relation to technological development and continues by examining the Greek case, presenting both an historical evolution of the new developed and protected technologies and their weight based on their importance in quantitative and qualitative terms. The total period of analysis has been divided in two sub-periods, 1988- 2000 and 2000-2010 in order to trace changes in trends and behaviour in both the introduction or withdraw of technologies and their relative importance. The paper also provides evidence of the high or low concentration of the developed technological innovation inside relative technology and industrial sectors.