Critical technologies for the North of Portugal in 2015: the case of ITCE sectors - information technologies, communication and electronics
Critical technologies for the North of Portugal in 2015: the case of ITCE sectors - information technologies, communication and electronics
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2007
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Luís Carneiro
António Carrizo
Marta Tavares
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The Commission for Coordination and Regional Development of the
North of Portugal (CCDR-N) promoted NORTINOV 2015, a project created to
define a regional innovation strategy for the North of Portugal based on
automotive clusters and Information Technology, Communication and
Electronics (ITCE) clusters. Accordingly, it developed a technology forecast
for the year 2015 in order to help the North of Portugal cope with the
intensifying global competition and rapid technological changes. This paper
describes the methodology used to identify critical technologies for the regional
economy of the North of Portugal under the project NORTINOV 2015. It
involved three main steps: technology identification and study, in which a list
of emerging technologies was implemented; refinement of emerging
technologies, in which 90 technologies were identified and finally,
classification and hierarchisation of technologies, in which 30 technologies
were identified as critical for the crafting of regional innovation strategy. In this
final step, a workshop involving major stakeholders of the three clusters under
study played a major role.