BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 14. The world may face
a fragmentation of the global technological system into parallel
ecosystems amid growing geopolitical tensions and restrictions in
the high-tech sector, former Minister of Defense of Montenegro
Milica Pejanovic-Durisic said at the 13th Global Baku Forum on
“Bridging Divides in a World in Transition”, Trend reports.
According to her, over the past decades, the global
technological system has developed as a single, interconnected
space, where innovations were created in different countries, while
supply chains, standards, and infrastructure remained
integrated.
“Today, we are witnessing a new trend in which the global
innovation system may be fragmenting into parallel ecosystems with
different standards, supply chains, and technology platforms,”
she noted.
Pejanovic-Durisic emphasized that such processes are most often
viewed through the prism of competition between the U.S. and China,
but their consequences are global and affect all countries.
As an example, she mentioned the semiconductor industry, where
the production of a single chip can involve development in one
country, assembly in another, and use in a third.
“Today, this model is under pressure due to export restrictions
and new industrial strategies that are changing the global
structure of technological production,” she said.
According to her, more countries are seeking to develop their
own production capacities in strategically important sectors,
including semiconductor manufacturing, which is gradually leading
to the formation of more regionalized technological systems.
She added that increased technological competition could lead to
long-term changes in the global economy and require new approaches
to international cooperation.
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