Identifying European Poles of Excellence: The Methodology

Daniel Nepelski and Giuditta De Prato

No JRC85356, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: 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 agglomerated and globally performing ICT activities. An additional challenge of the EIPE project is that this identification process had to be based only on the analysis of quantitative data, and built on a set of relevant criteria leading to measurable indicators. The present report documents the methodologies and data sources used for this purpose.

Keywords: ICT; information and communication technologies; innovation, R&D, ICT industry; region; Europe; Poles of Excellence; clusters; indicators; methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 O52 R12 R28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2014-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-ino and nep-sbm
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