Despite the persistent need to precisely capture and carefully analyze the employment effects associated with the production and deployment of ICT, policy discussion has not been well-supported by good quality statistical information on the ICT employment. In part, this has been due to the...

This report is one of a series resulting from a project entitled "Competitiveness by Leveraging Emerging Technologies Economically" (COMPLETE), carried out by JRC-IPTS. Each of the COMPLETE studies illustrates in its own right that European companies are active on many fronts of emerging and...

This report is one of a series resulting from a project entitled "Competitiveness by Leveraging Emerging Technologies Economically" (COMPLETE), carried out by JRC-IPTS. Each of the COMPLETE studies illustrates in its own right that European companies are active on many fronts of emerging and...

The report begins with a brief overview of the social care system in England, providing in particular evidence about unpaid carers (mostly family members, but sometimes friends or neighbours) and the paid home care workers, who support older, sick or disabled people of all ages in their own...

This report is the 2010 edition of a report that is published annually. It presents all the data available on ICT R&D private and public expenditures in Europe, at sector, country and company levels, and from an international perspective (benchmarking). It provides data up to 2007. The second...

This report documents the findings of the study on the potential of ICT in supporting the provision of domiciliary care, with particular attention to the case of immigrant care workers and informal caregivers in Germany. This country study was launched by JRC-IPTS in 2008 in parallel with two...

This report is the result of the current knowledge of IPTS, the Tavistock Institute and the discussions that took place among the invited experts on what can ICT do for youth at risk. It aims to provide policymakers with a better understanding of the relationship between ICT and youth at risk...

This report is the IPTS annual "PREDICT" report, which presents all the data available on ICT R&D private and public expenditures in Europe, at sector level, at country level, in an international perspective (benchmarking), and at company level. It covers data for the period 2001-2005 (and 2006...

The report provides a detailed analysis of the state of public Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Research and Development (R&D) expenditures in the European Union (EU). We also provide an interim assessment of the Digital Agenda Target about doubling public ICT R&D expenditures....

Despite the persistent need to precisely capture and carefully analyze the employment effects associated with the production and deployment of ICT, policy discussion has not been well-supported by good quality statistical information on the ICT employment. In part, this has been due to the...