The impact of policy consistency on technological competitiveness: A study on OECD countries

The indexes are applied to the case of renewable energy sector since energy sector is highly dependent on the government policy and thus needs high policy consistency. The result shows that renewable energy technology development is affected by policy and the higher the policy consistency especially in emerging sectors. It also shows that countries of high policy consistency tend to achieve higher technological competitiveness and thus are likely to secure higher technological competitiveness in the future. The findings of this study can be used in designing policy for sustainable technological competitiveness and will be a corner stone for researches on assessing policy consistency.