This report provides an analysis of the state of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Research and …’s report provides data up to 2008. The report starts with a presentation of general trends concerning the EU ICT sector in a … ICT sector. The report then analyses R&D in the ICT sector, using data from the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard …

The European ICT Poles of Excellence project aims to identify ICT R&D&I-related activities which are geographically … concentrated and which demonstrate high performance in ICT innovative activities: the European ICT Poles of Excellence. It also … aims to help map the dynamics of ICT-related innovation and economic geography in Europe, pointing to the presence and …

We study the drivers of international patent applications in ICT technologies by non-residents. We construct bilateral … filed between 1990 and 2007 to any patent office in the world. Despite the global character of the ICT industry, applicants …

The EIPE project aims to identify ICT R&D&I-related activities which are geographically concentrated and which … demonstrate high performance in ICT innovative activities: the European ICT Poles of Excellence. This is the third EIPE Report and … it presents the results of an empirical mapping of ICT activity in Europe and the ranking of the top European NUTS 3 …

The EIPE project aims to identify ICT R&D&I-related activities which are geographically concentrated and which … demonstrate high performance in ICT innovative activities: the European ICT Poles of Excellence. It also aims to help map the … dynamics of ICT-related innovation and economic geography in Europe, pointing to the presence and possibly the emergence of …

This report analyses R&D investments by top R&D-investing companies from the ICT sector, for the period of 2005 …-2008. It focuses on the distribution of R&D investments by firms in specific ICT sub-sectors from the five main world regions …, paying special attention to R&D investments by ICT companies from the EU. The relationship between R&D growth and company …

The EIPE project aims to identify activities related to ICT R&D and innovation which are geographically concentrated … and which demonstrate high performance: the European ICT Poles of Excellence. Besides providing a comprehensive map of ICT …-related activity in Europe, the project looks at five NUTS3 regions that can be considered as key elements of the European ICT …

This report provides evidence on the inventive output of ICT R&D activity in the EU, the US and other regions and … of output of the R&D process. According to the presented evidence, the annual number of ICT priority patent applications …. Since the early 90s, the annual number of Asian (excluding Japan) ICT priority patent applications strongly increased due to …

The Commission Communication entitled "A Strategy for ICT R&D and Innovation in Europe: Raising the Game" proposes … reinforcing Europe's industrial and technology leadership in ICT. Building on Europe's assets, the Communication anticipates a … landscape where, by 2020, "(…) Europe has nurtured an additional five ICT poles of world-class excellence (…)". This study …

In this paper we use the subset of ICT companies from the European R&D Investment Scoreboard to test the effect of …