This report focuses on modes of ICT innovation at the meso level of systems and the micro level of firms. After a summary of the literature on national innovation systems, and its sectoral and regional applications, we discuss how the concept of innovation systems can be applied to the case of...

STEM education, encompassing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, has evolved significantly due to technological and societal shifts. Integrated STEM and STEAM (adding arts) approaches are becoming more spoken, focusing on developing 21st-century skills like creativity and...

This report uses data from Efige and from Bureau Van Dijk's Amadeus and Orbis to estimate the effect of funding from the EU and national programmes on firms' employment, sales, added value, productivity and innovativeness. It also looks at the impact of subsidies to investment and R&D...

The objective of the study is to document the existence of innovation gaps between the EU and its main competitors in specific ICT sub-sectors - namely web services, industrial robotics and display technologies -and to explore the role of government policies in Europe's future needs for...

In this report we study the evolution of poverty and inequality in Italy in the period 1987‐2010. Our data are from the Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth and we use price indexes that allow both the dynamics and the levels of real incomes to differ (the reference year is...

Based on PISA 2009 data, this paper studies the relationship between students' computer use and their achievement in reading, mathematics and science in 23 countries. After having categorized computer use into a set of different activities according to the skills they involve, we correlate PISA...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are believed to play a central role in determining productivity, especially when ICT investments are complemented in investments in Organizational Capital and Human Capital. In this paper we explore the ICT-Organizational Innovation-Human Capital...

In this report, we look at the evolution of Europe's R&D intensity gap relative to the US and its main competitors, using data from repeated waves (2002-2010) of the Industrial Scoreboard, which collects data from top R&D performers in Europe and in the rest of the world (US, Japan, BRIC, Asian...