A frequent complaint in literature is that services have been previously largely overlooked by innovation researchers and technology policy makers. Given the unarguable growth in the importance of the service sectors, increasing numbers of researchers and policy makers have taken a fresh look at...

IPTS hosted a thematic workshop on the "Socio-Economic Aspects of the Knowledge-based Europe: The role of Information Society Technologies (ISTs)", which set out to diagnose major problems for Europe in achieving the Lisbon 2010 objectives. It also aimed to elaborate on possible new initiatives...