Press Release: Sweden at head of pack on digital research funding

While Sweden may be a global leader in R&D investment, the EU as a whole is still lagging behind the Japan and the US: new data published on 5 June 2014 shows that 6.6% of the total R&D government support is invested in ICT in the EU, compared to 9.1% in Japan and 7.9% in the US.

Figures from the Digital Scorecard show that more efforts are necessary to meet the goal set by the Digital Agenda for Europe: to reach €11 billion of annual total public spending on ICT R&D by 2020.

European Commission: RAPID: Press Release, IP/14/609: The EU 2014 Digital Scoreboard: how did you fare? http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-609_en.pdf

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