A Methodology for Estimating Public ICT R&D Expenditures in the EU

The goal of the present study is to create a methodology for measuring or estimating public ICT R&D expenditures in the EU and allow subsequently their monitoring. For this purpose, we estimate ICT share in existing disaggregated GBAORD data from the period 2004-2010 using an assumption that the share of ICT expenditures in GBAORD is similar to the share of ICT R&D employment. Labour Force Survey (LFS) is employed to calculate ICT R&D employment. In order to link GBAORD and LFS, we define a NABS-NACE correspondence table. Our estimation shows that the total EU ICT GBAORD accounts for €5.4bn (2010) and that, so far, the EU is lagging behind its Digital Agenda target.

STANCIK Juraj; 

2012-09-06

Publications Office of the European Union

JRC69978

978-92-79-25717-9,   

1831-9424,   

EUR 25433 EN,    OP LF-NA-25433-EN-N,   

http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=5119,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC69978,   

10.2791/85805,   

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC69978/public%20ict%20rnd%20expenditures%20report%20with%20covers%20final.pdf