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The Potential of Digital Games for Empowerment and Social Inclusion of Groups at Risk of Social and Economic Exclusion: Evidence and Opportunity for Policy
Stewart, James; Bleumers, Lizzy; Centeno - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013
This report addresses the potential of digital games to support social inclusion and empowerment (DGEI). It is based on a range of theoretical and empirical data, brought together for the first time in this and associated reports. The aim of the report, commissioned by DG CNECT, is to provide a...
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Do Incentives for Innovation work? Evidence from the Italian Manufacturing Sector
Biagi, Federico; Loi, Massimo - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012
Understanding and estimating the impact of fiscal incentives on innovation are crucial elements for policy evaluation. This is so because innovation- be it of the product or the process type- is able to move the production frontier and hence, ultimately, enlarge society’s consumption...
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Innovation and Productivity in Services: Evidence from Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom
Peters, Bettina; Riley, Rebecca; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three … countries analysed, among the innovation types that we consider, the strongest link between innovation and productivity was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183308
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Macroeconomic Modelling of Public Expenditures on Research and Development in Information and Communication Technologies
Szewczyk, Wojciech; Sabadash, Anna - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013
Since the 1990s, information and communication technology (ICT) has been an essential driver of economic growth. Between 1995 and 2010, the ICT sectors have accounted for over 20% of EU15 growth, even though they only constitute 5% of EU15 GDP. The high growth resulting from the ever-increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169894
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ICT and Productivity: A Review of the Literature
Biagi, Federico - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013
In this report we review the literature on the relationship between ICT and productivity. In Sect. 1 we discuss in … broad terms the theoretical relationship between ICT and productivity, while in Sect. 2 we present the growth accounting …, total factor productivity). Within the growth-accounting methodology, in Sect. 3, we discuss the U.S. - E.U. productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170074
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Macroeconomic Modelling of Public Expenditures on Research and Development in Information and Communication Technologies
Szewczyk, Wojciech; Sabadash, Anna - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012
Since the 1990s, information and communication technology (ICT) has been an essential driver of economic growth. Between 1995 and 2010, the ICT sectors have accounted for over 20% of EU15 growth, even though they only constitute 5% of EU15 GDP. The high growth resulting from the ever-increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010628225
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The 2011 Report on R&D in ICT in the European Union.
Turlea, Geomina; Nepelski, Daniel; Prato, Giuditta De; … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2011
patenting in the European Union and a comparison of ICT patenting performance, by Member State and with other world regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169774
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Key Findings and Implications of the European ICT Poles of Excellence Project
Nepelski, Daniel; Prato, Giuditta de - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
The European ICT Poles of Excellence 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169806
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Mapping the European ICT Poles of Excellence: The Atlas of ICT Acitvity in Europe
Prato, Giuditta de; Nepelski, Daniel - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
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. This is the third EIPE Report and it presents the results of an empirical mapping of ICT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169862
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Public ICT R&D funding in the European Union
Juraj Stan?ík; Rohman, Ibrahim Kholilul - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123804