Strategies of the countries’ innovative activity in development of intelligent systems

Development of intelligent systems based on artificial intelligence in the area of research and development of technical systems is a new competitive advantage and a growth driver for a country. The authors of the article present the indicators of innovative activity of the countries in development of intelligent systems: the share of the country’s patents in the number of patents for all countries, the number of national strategies in the area of intelligent systems in the country, the geography of implementation of the intelligent systems developed by a country. The authors introduce a term of “index of a country specialization in the sphere of intelligent technology”. Index of specialization is a correlation of factual number of types of patents registered in the country in the sphere of intelligent technology to 10 potentially possible types of patents. These include the patents on advanced manufacturing technologies, robotics, advanced materials, artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of things, mobility, photonics, security, and digital twins. Using a cluster method, the authors classify 43 countries by the level of innovative activity in the sphere of development of intelligent systems, on the basis of the data provided by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the European Commission in 2023. This allowed developing a classification of 11 strategies of innovative activity in the sphere of development of intelligent systems (based on the scoring assessment). The proposed strategy classification makes it possible to perform benchmarking to study the country’s experience and evaluate the investment risks for the projects in development of intelligent systems.

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