Information technology research in the UK: perspectives on services research and development, and systems of innovation

Jeremy Howells, Bruce Tether (), Deborah Cox and John Rigby ()

Science and Public Policy, 2006, vol. 33, issue 1, 17-31

Abstract: This paper reports on a survey of information technology (IT) research and development (R&D) in the UK, representing around two-thirds of the total population of IT R&D employees in the UK private and public sectors. The firm-level survey identified that the UK is particularly strong in communications R&D, and in the internet, user applications software, middle-ware, photonic components and microelectronics. More especially, services R&D in the form of systems and software R&D accounted for well over half the total R&D effort within the surveyed IT firms and organisations. The paper concludes by exploring some of the key conceptual and policy issues arising from the research. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2006
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