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30 Jan 06
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Its official: ICT is the motor of growth. What are the macro-economic headlines? Today, ICT represents a modest, but growing, 6% of the EU economy. But this sector generates 25% of the EU’s growth and 40% of its productivity gains. ICT is also transforming micro and sectoral level economics. Productivity gains at firm level through innovations such as e-procurement are transforming business performance. ICT creates new markets (and ways to re-energise mature markets). For example, last Friday the former Prime Minister of Finland, Esko Aho, submitted a report of a High-Level expert group to Commission President Barroso which identified digital content as one of seven key strategic areas for an Innovative Europe if Europe succeeds in finally overcoming the fragmentation of 25 different intellectual property right regimes. Look also at the new services that are transforming existing business such as IPTV which is predicted to rise from 700,000 subscribers today to nearly 9 million by 2009. New e-business web-services are predicted to be adopted by 90% of EU firms by 2010, up from the 20% we see today (IDC predictions 2004). This will transform the productivity of all firms down to the smallest enterprise and create many new market opportunities for e-business services in the finance, accounting, security, facilities management, logistics, etc....
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Its official: ICT is the motor of growth. What are the macro-economic headlines? Today, ICT represents a modest, but growing, 6% of the EU economy. But this sector generates 25% of the EU’s growth and 40% of its productivity gains. ICT is also transforming micro and sectoral level economics. Productivity gains at firm level through innovations such as e-procurement are transforming business performance. ICT creates new markets (and ways to re-energise mature markets). For example, last Friday the former Prime Minister of Finland, Esko Aho, submitted a report of a High-Level expert group to Commission President Barroso which identified digital content as one of seven key strategic areas for an Innovative Europe if Europe succeeds in finally overcoming the fragmentation of 25 different intellectual property right regimes. Look also at the new services that are transforming existing business such as IPTV which is predicted to rise from 700,000 subscribers today to nearly 9 million by 2009. New e-business web-services are predicted to be adopted by 90% of EU firms by 2010, up from the 20% we see today (IDC predictions 2004). This will transform the productivity of all firms down to the smallest enterprise and create many new market opportunities for e-business services in the finance, accounting, security, facilities management, logistics, etc....
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27 Jan 06
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