Santiago Sainz from the International Sustainable Development Observatory published this dataset on 2026-05-16. It supports an article examining Europe's competitive position in critical and frontier technologies relative to the United States and China. The data likely contains metrics for assessing scientific capacity, industrial capacity, and strategic autonomy across seven technology domains.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking European performance in clean technologies, quantum, and biotechnology based on the three-dimensional framework described.
- Identifying structural barriers to commercial scale-up in European tech sectors based on the described factors of capital markets and regulation.
- Mapping domains of potential European leadership based on intersecting features like engineering quality and standards authority mentioned in the description.
Strengths
- Dataset is associated with a detailed analytical article providing context.
- Covers seven specific technology domains: clean tech, quantum, advanced materials, biotechnology, industrial robotics, space systems, and advanced connectivity.
- Last updated 2026-05-16 10:58:35.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- International Sustainable Development Observatory
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from secondary sources and analysis for the associated research article.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-16 10:58:35.
- Geography
- European Union, with comparative analysis relative to the United States and China.