Reference documents - Policy documents, publications and studies

2008

• The European e-Business Report of October 2008:
  Full Report
  Summary

2007

• Final Report of the Study on the specific Policy Need for ICT Standardisation (Contract work made by Law Firm DLA Piper, Belgium. May 11, 2007. 141 pp.):
  Executive summary [386 KB]
  Full report [934 KB]
  Annex A [216 KB]
  Annex B [831 KB]
  Annex C [366 KB]
  Annex D [585 KB]
  
  Comments received in relation to this study
  
  CEN standards research inputs [43 KB]
  CEN Way forward inputs [24 KB]
  BSA [63 KB]
  ANEC [124 KB]
  ETNO [5 KB]
  W3C [4 KB]
  CEN, CENELEC and ETSI [76 KB]
  Intel Corp. [15 KB]
  SFS [34 KB]
  Ecma International [41 KB]
  Diverse [17 KB]
  Openforum Europe [145 KB]
  BERR (UK) [11 KB]
  Cable Europe [42 KB]
  ECIS [91 KB]
  EICTA [175 KB]
  
  
• Minutes of the open workshop of 24 May 2007 [488 KB] in relation to the Final Report of the Study on the specific Policy Need for ICT Standardisation
• Study on the Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU [2 MB]
  (Final Report, 20 November. R.A. Ghosh, UNU-MERIT, NL. et al., 287 pp.)

2006

• Effects of ICT production on aggregate labour productivity growth [51 KB]
  (Commission Staff Working Paper, 13.7.2006. 8 pp.)
• Effects of ICT capital on economic growth [50 KB]
  (Commission Staff Working Paper, 28.6.2006. 7 pp.)
• Presentation of Legal Study in 4th B2B Group meeting
  (May)
• Presentation of Interim Report on Cost-benefit-assessment of B2B e-markets
  (May)
• Presentation of Recent Developments of B2B e-markets
  (May)

2005

• "E-markets and online directories - a handbook for small businesses" [2 MB]
• The supply and demand of e-skills in Europe [954 KB]
  (Rand Europe, September, 143 pp.)
• Key indicators on the Competitiveness of the EU's ICT Industry [163 KB]
  (Commission Staff Working Paper, 17 March. 12 pp.)