Public ICT R&D funding in the European Union

Juraj Stancík () and Ibrahim Kholilul Rohman ()
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Juraj Stancík: European Commission JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en

No JRC92883, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: The report provides a detailed analysis of the state of public expenditure on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Research and Development (R&D) in the European Union (EU). We also provide an interim assessment of the extent to which the Digital Agenda target about doubling public ICT R&D expenditures has been achieved. Furthermore, besides focusing on the EU, we compare these expenditures with public expenditures on ICT R&D in the EUs main counterpart, the United States of America (US). Our analysis, covering the period 2006-2011, shows that EU ICT R&D public funding has been steadily growing. In 2011, it reached 6.1 billion which represented 6.6% of the whole public R&D funding. Regarding the comparison with the US, we conclude that the US government devotes more ICT R&D funds than all the EU Member States governments together but this gap has been shrinking and during the period 2006-2011 it decreased by 50%.

Keywords: ICT; information and communication technologies; innovation; R&D; NABS; GBAORD; public funding; ICT R&D; EU; the US (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E61 H50 O32 O52 R12 R28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2014-12
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