The report provides a detailed analysis of the state of public expenditure on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Research and Development (R&D) in the European Union (EU). We also provide an interim assessment of the extent to which the Digital Agenda target about doubling public ICT R&D expenditures has been achieved. Furthermore, besides focusing on the EU, we compare these expenditures with public expenditures on ICT R&D in the EU’s main counterpart, the United States of America (US). Our analysis, covering the period 2006-2011, shows that EU ICT R&D public funding has been steadily growing. In 2011, it reached €6.1 billion which represented 6.6% of the whole public R&D funding. Regarding the comparison with the US, we conclude that the US government devotes more ICT R&D funds than all the EU Member States governments together but this gap has been shrinking and during the period 2006-2011 it decreased by 50%.

STANCIK Juraj;  ROHMAN Ibrahim Kholilul; 

2014-12-19

Publications Office of the European Union

JRC92883

978-92-79-44522-4,   

1831-9424,   

EUR 26981,    OP LF-NA-26981-EN-N,   

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC92883,   

10.2791/224075,