Indicators of Technology-based Competitiveness: Incorporating Recent Changes in the Concept, "High-Technology." and in Data Availability

该项目将继续研究制定一套关于高技术产业国际竞争力的国家一级指标的可行性。这项研究将探讨改进和调整现有指标的若干方法，以考虑到在思考“高技术”定义方面的最新进展(例如，纳入非制造业和软件产品)、承认新兴技术(例如生物技术、微电子-机械系统)中的国家领导地位对未来竞争力的重要性、改进和扩大国际专利数据中的国家覆盖面，以及文献计量学和引文分析方面的进展。将探讨在费用、数据可靠性、国家覆盖面以及与过去的指标系列的可比性等方面作出这种改变的可行性。

This project will continue to investigate the feasibility of a set of country-level indicators on international competitiveness in high-technology industries. This research will examine a number of ways in which the existing indicators might be improved and adjusted to account for recent advances in thinking about the definition of "high-technology" (e.g., the inclusion of nonmanufacturing industries and software products), recognition of the significance for future competitiveness of national leadership in emerging technologies (e.g., biotechnology, microelectronic-mechanical systems), improvements and expanded country coverage in international patent data, and advances in bibliometrics and citation analysis. The feasibility of such changes in terms of cost, data reliability, country coverage, and comparability with past indicator series will be explored.