Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?

Autores
Fernández Franco, Sebastián; Graña, Juan Martin; Flacher, David; Rikap, Cecilia Alejandra
Año de publicación
2022
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This paper examines the innovation strategy of Siemens, a key player in Europe’s digital economy, by performing network and lexical analyses using data derived from Siemens’s patents and scientific publications since 1998. We observe that the company’s innovation efforts evolved from a broader attempt to develop internal information and communication technology (ICT) capabilities – alongside its historical industrial priorities – to a strategy focused on developing artificial intelligence (AI) for sector-specific and niche applications (such as life and medical sciences). As a result, it became dependent on tech giants’ clouds for accessing more general AI services and digital infrastructure. We build on the intellectual monopoly literature focusing on the effects of tech giants on other leading corporations, to analyse Siemens’s experience. By abandoning the development of general ICT and given the emergence of tech giants as digital economy intellectual monopolies, we show that Siemens is risking its technological autonomy towards these big tech companies. Our results provide clues to understand the challenges faced by Europe and its firms in relation to US and Chinese tech giants.
Fil: Fernández Franco, Sebastián. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas. Centro de Estudios sobre Población, Empleo y Desarrollo; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Graña, Juan Martin. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas. Centro de Estudios sobre Población, Empleo y Desarrollo; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Flacher, David. Universite de Technologie de Compiègne; Francia
Fil: Rikap, Cecilia Alejandra. Universite de Technologie de Compiegne; Francia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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BIG TECH
CLOUD COMPUTING
DIGITAL ECONOMY
NETWORK ANALYSIS
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY
SIEMENS
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?
title Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?
spellingShingle Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?
Fernández Franco, Sebastián
BIG TECH
CLOUD COMPUTING
DIGITAL ECONOMY
NETWORK ANALYSIS
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY
SIEMENS
title_short Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?
title_full Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?
title_fullStr Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?
title_full_unstemmed Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?
title_sort Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Fernández Franco, Sebastián
Graña, Juan Martin
Flacher, David
Rikap, Cecilia Alejandra
author Fernández Franco, Sebastián
author_facet Fernández Franco, Sebastián
Graña, Juan Martin
Flacher, David
Rikap, Cecilia Alejandra
author_role author
author2 Graña, Juan Martin
Flacher, David
Rikap, Cecilia Alejandra
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv BIG TECH
CLOUD COMPUTING
DIGITAL ECONOMY
NETWORK ANALYSIS
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY
SIEMENS
topic BIG TECH
CLOUD COMPUTING
DIGITAL ECONOMY
NETWORK ANALYSIS
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY
SIEMENS
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This paper examines the innovation strategy of Siemens, a key player in Europe’s digital economy, by performing network and lexical analyses using data derived from Siemens’s patents and scientific publications since 1998. We observe that the company’s innovation efforts evolved from a broader attempt to develop internal information and communication technology (ICT) capabilities – alongside its historical industrial priorities – to a strategy focused on developing artificial intelligence (AI) for sector-specific and niche applications (such as life and medical sciences). As a result, it became dependent on tech giants’ clouds for accessing more general AI services and digital infrastructure. We build on the intellectual monopoly literature focusing on the effects of tech giants on other leading corporations, to analyse Siemens’s experience. By abandoning the development of general ICT and given the emergence of tech giants as digital economy intellectual monopolies, we show that Siemens is risking its technological autonomy towards these big tech companies. Our results provide clues to understand the challenges faced by Europe and its firms in relation to US and Chinese tech giants.
Fil: Fernández Franco, Sebastián. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas. Centro de Estudios sobre Población, Empleo y Desarrollo; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Graña, Juan Martin. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas. Centro de Estudios sobre Población, Empleo y Desarrollo; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Flacher, David. Universite de Technologie de Compiègne; Francia
Fil: Rikap, Cecilia Alejandra. Universite de Technologie de Compiegne; Francia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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