The PREDICT 2012 Report: An Analysis of ICT R&D – EU and Beyond provides a detailed analysis of the state of the Research and Development (R&D) activities in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sectors in the European Union. Data and analyses provided are based on data from national accounts, covering the years 2008 and 2009, a period marked by a deep financial and economic crisis.

The PREDICT analysis provides an overview of the importance of the ICT sector and its R&D activities in the EU. Information is offered by the ICT manufacturing and services sub-sectors, by the EU member states, and compared with the US.

Data and analyses are structured according to the following categories: size of the ICT sector in terms of its share in GDP (i.e., ICT sector value added), employment and labour productivity of the ICT sector, expenditure in R&D of the ICT companies (ICT BERD), estimates of public funding of ICT R&D in the EU and its member states, and amount of R&D personnel in the ICT sector.

Some of the main results are the following:

• ICT sector Value Added (VA) in the EU is 4.0% of EU GDP, a share that has remained stable over the last few years.
• In 2009, over 6.1 million people worked in the EU ICT sector, representing 2.7% of employment in the EU.
• Public funding of ICT R&D in the EU in 2009 was estimated at € 5.3 billion which represented almost 6% of the total EU public funding of R&D.
• In 2009, 10% of EU R&D personnel were employed in the ICT manufacturing sub-sector, whereas only 3.7% were employed in the ICT services sector.