The DAE action 55 states that Member States should double their investment in ICT research by 2020. We're doing a study for EC to assess this and we're gathering evidence to measure it.

In particular we'd like to gather your views on:
- Which country is increasing substantially the level of investment in ICT Research?
- Are there dedicated research programmes that you would indicate as best practice?
- What other inspiring initiative do you know to increase the investment in ICT RD (e.g. tax credits, clusters)?

Thanks! We'll report back on results.

Identifying initiatives relevant to this group:

The first "Crossroads Café" will be organized in Pula, Croatia
http://www.fing.org/?Crossroads-Cafe&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fing%2Factu+%2...

Europe has losts its way. Our former strenghts where based on market value creation in constant competition.

This has been replaced by "managed citiziens and markets" which simply do not work.

My statement is not ideological but recognising the basic fact that especially bureuarats and commercial infrastructures foicus on controlling and preventing innovation rather than value creation.

Stanards are not designed to facilite change and innovation but to establish lock-in and kartel structures e.g. payments, mobile phones and eSignature.

It is well known that clusters can create an effective innovation ecosystem in which new companies grow together and flourish more than they would do individually, mainly by sharing explicit and tacit knowledge. These clusters are geographically and sectorally concentrated.
"Between 30% and 40% of all employment is in industries that concentrate, or ‘cluster’, regionally."
http://www.proinno-europe.eu/admin/uploaded_documents/innovation_cluster...