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European Commission Directorate-General For The Information Society And Media

Description

Impacts of European ICT research
Information technology and telecommunications
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

Sujets

• Information technology
• Research and development
• Innovation
• Telecommunication
• Informatique
• Marketing et communication

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA
• Nombre de lectures: 13
• Langue: Español
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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very year, European industry and public organisations E spend around €41 billion on ICT research and development. Industry’s contribution is around €34 billion a year – a large part of itdevoted to the ‘development’ side of R&D. The public sector contribution is essential to support the riskier research – instrumental to future business breakthroughs – and to address societal challenges. eCommunity’s €1 billion yearly contributionseems small in absolute terms. Yet without it, vital areas of high- risk, medium to long-term, cross-sector research could be neglected, and the opportunities that come with technological and market leadership lost. Indeed, ICT makes up only around 7% (with the media sector) of EU GDP, but accounts for almost half of all productivity gains in the economy and employs some 12 million people EU-wide. e EU is also the world’s largest ICT market (32% of total) and represents about 22% of worldwide ICT supply. ICT programmes, in particular, support around 15,000 of the best researchers ad and engineers every year, and thousands of organisations – that consider their participation as high value for money in terms of output or impact.

To ensure the widest possible reach and impact, the EU’s ICT budget supports collaborative research and participation is balanced between industry and academia. A large part of industrial participants are SMEs. In output terms, EU projects generate thousands of scientific articles and peer-reviewed papers, hundreds of patents, trademarks or registered designs, and hundreds of spin-offs are created or benefit from the networks and relationships fostered within consortia. Indeed, well over two- thirds of the project partners consider it unlikely that they would achieve the same output or impact without Community support.

ICT programme yearly budget

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Who participates in the Programme?

ivate non-ofit 14%

Industry 35%

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he breakthroughs in information and communica- T tions technology (ICT) that excite us today are the result of significant and sustained investment in research and development worldwide.

Breakthroughs that fire popular imagination and win market approval are common enough. But their origins and path to success – from an idea to a rigorous theory, solution to a problem, prototype, and onto commercial blockbuster – often appear as a footnote to the big story.

Since the early 1990s, the EUhas been setting aside around a billion euros per year to support ICT research and development in thousands of collaborative projects involving the best engineers and scientists on the continent.

This is a significant investment, so it is important that Europeans understand how it is benefiting them in both small and large ways, sometimes seen, sometimes behind the scenes, but never lacking in ambition.

This brochure will help readers get the measure of ICT research supported at Community level by highlighting impacts on the competitiveness of our industry, on the knowledge and skills of our research teams, on partnership- building in Europe and ultimately on society as a whole.