Mapping R&D Investment by the European ICT Business Sector
The paper shows that the ICT sector alone is responsible for about half the R&D investment gap between the EU and the US, i.e. the fact that EU invests a much smaller share of its GDP in R&D. It argues that this is partly because the ICT sector is a smaller part of the economy in the EU than it is in the US. More important, however, is the lower R&D intensity (business R&D / value added) of the ICT sector in the EU. This is mainly due to lower R&D intensity in two sub-sectors: Computer Services and Software, and Electronic Measurement Instruments. Current data analysis gives no indication that the ICT R&D gap is closing. The analysis further finds that among EU member states, Northern member states show higher ICT R&D intensity than Southern member states, and the Western member states a much higher intensity than the Eastern member states. The bulk of the paper then takes a closer look at each of the ICT sub-sectors, mapping out the R&D effort in each of them.
LINDMARK Sven;
TURLEA Geomina;
ULBRICH Martin;
2008-11-25
OPOCE
JRC45723
978-92-79-09843-7,
1018-5593,
EUR 23518 EN,
OP LF-NA-23518-EN-C,
http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=1879,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC45723,
10.2791/42256,
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