This report presents original data and statistics on the innovation output of world top corporate R&D investors. Essentially descriptive in nature, it presents statistics about the technological profiles of companies, their trademark strategies for new products and services and about the extent...

This report presents the outcomes of the expert workshop held at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) on 29 and 30 October 2008 to discuss the impact of the social computing on Education and Training (E&T) in Europe. The workshop aimed to validate the results of the...

The main objective of ERAWATCH country reports 2008 is to characterise and assess the performance of national research systems and related policies in a structured manner that is comparable across countries. The reports are produced for each EU Member State to support the mutual learning process...

The present policy note draws from original empirical work attempting to shed some light on the joint importance of regional innovation capacity (proxied by a novel index of regional agglomeration of knowledge intensive employment) and scientific networking (proxied by an index of interregional...

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 main objective of ERAWATCH country reports 2008 is to characterise and assess the performance of national research systems and related policies in a structured manner that is comparable across countries. The reports are produced for each EU Member State to support the mutual learning process...

This report presents the results of "The 2008 EU Survey on R&D Investment Business Trends". It provides new insights into company expectations about future R&D investments and their motivations for investing in research. The results are drawn from the responses received from 130 large companies...

One key aspect that could influence the digital identity policy landscape has not been studied: the views of the European citizens, particularly the views of the generation that has grown up with digital devices. This survey seeks to find out more about future user needs and requirements in the...

The present policy note makes use of information reported in ERAWATCH (EW) national profiles of research policies and the combined EW and TRENDCHART (TC) inventories of support measures to perform a selective review of policies introduced by EU member states in support of Human Resources for...

This report provides an assessment of policies put in place by EU Member States to reach the objectives set out in the Lisbon Strategy, by presenting to the reader a summary of relevant information on R&D policies in Europe, supported by statistical and other quantitative and qualitative...