ENHANCING ICT AND INNOVATION IN EU AND MOLDOVA: ACHIEVEMENTS AND IMPACT

For decades to come, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) will underpin the competitiveness of our economy, the efficiency of our public services and our quality of life.ICT sector accounted for a substantial part of EU GDP and of Moldova.But the question is what is the value added of ICT sector, an indicator that speaks about the performance of this industry.Today Europe represents 34% of the global information and communication technologies (ICT) market, and its value is growing by 4% per year. However, the value added produced by the EU's ICT sector amounts to only 23% of the total, because both Europe's market and research efforts are fragmented. As a result, Europe is lagging behind its global competitors in ICT research and in the production of innovative ICT-based products and services. As concerns the ICT sector in Republic of Moldova, the data are much more modest, meaning that are lessons to be learned and steps to be followed.