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 … questions. In particular, we focus on the role of ICT as a General Purpose Technology aspects and we review the literature …

Since the 1990s, information and communication technology (ICT) has been an essential driver of economic growth …: relationship between public and private R&D expenditure, innovation and the R&D process, and diffusion and impact of ICT. Further … GDP. The high growth resulting from the ever-increasing pace of ICT-related innovation requires high levels of R&D to be …

Since the 1990s, information and communication technology (ICT) has been an essential driver of economic growth …: relationship between public and private R&D expenditure, innovation and the R&D process, and diffusion and impact of ICT. Further … GDP. The high growth resulting from the ever-increasing pace of ICT-related innovation requires high levels of R&D to be …

gives detailed information on the progress made by the ICT sector comprising both ICT manufacturing and ICT service. The …The 2013 PREDICT report provides an overview of the importance of the EU ICT sector and its R&D performance. The report …, including both developed and emerging economies. The report found the trends that the EU ICT sector had a reduction in its share …

2011. However, as a result of the reverse progress on the value added and employment, ICT sector’s labour productivity … showed a downward trend during the observed periods. In terms of sub-sector analysis, the ICT manufacturing and services have … international comparison, the US still led in ICT sector productivity and value added in 2011. However, in BERD activities, they are …

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are believed to play a central role in determining productivity … explore the ICT-Organizational Innovation-Human Capital complementarities issue for the Manufacturing sector in Italy. We use … log of productivity and regress it on a series of explanatory variables, including ICT investment, the presence of …

This paper investigates the innovation impact of intangibles by considering the decision of firms to invest in a … these investments are directed to. Intangibles need to be managed strategically in order to have an innovation impact and … the policy support of this type of investment must take this strategic use into account. …

We study the drivers of international patent applications in ICT technologies by non-residents. We construct bilateral … filed between 1990 and 2007 to any patent office in the world. Despite the global character of the ICT industry, applicants …

technical change. We use the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard and perform a quantile estimation of an augmented Cobb …

factors. All-in-all “augmenting” the Scoreboard data with company level patent information appears to be an interesting …