Archive:High-tech statistics

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Creating, exploiting and commercialising new technologies has become essential in the global race for competitiveness. High-technology sectors are key drivers of economic growth, productivity and welfare, and are generally a source of high value added and well-paid employment. Technology-intensive enterprises are often referred to as high-technology – or high-tech – companies.

But what exactly is high-tech? Presently Eurostat use three approaches to define what high-tech is; the sector approach, the product approach and the patent approach. In each approach 'high-tech' is measured by. The sector approach looks at for example; high-tech manufacturing sector, medium high-tech manufacturing sector, high-tech knowledge-intensive service (KIS) sector, and more, and focuses on employment, earnings, etc. The product approach is more straight on and looks at whether a product is a 'high-tech product' or not and examines trade with high-tech products. The patent approach also looks at whether a patent is a 'high-tech patent' or not.

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In 2004, the EU-27 counted almost 140 000 enterprises in high-tech manufacturing and four times as many in high-tech knowledge intensive services (600 000). High-tech manufacturers were most numerous in Italy, Germany, France and Poland, accounting together for around two-thirds of the high-tech sector in the EU-27. The United Kingdom counted the most enterprises in the high-tech KIS sector (120 938), comprising almost one fifth of the EU-27 total, followed by Italy, Germany and France. A different picture emerges when considering turnover; Germany led the way in 2004, with a total turnover of EUR 150 billion in high-tech manufacturing, ahead of France (EUR 141 billion) which ranked first in the previous year. The United Kingdom ranked third (EUR 90 billion), although its turnover has gone down from 2003. One of the main reasons for this is the size of the high-tech manufacturing sector in the UK, which was smaller than its main EU counterparts. This is particularly relevant when compared to Italy, which counted almost three times as many enterprises in high-tech manufacturing than the UK. Considering the high-tech KIS sector, it is striking that turnover; production value and value added were almost twice as high in the United Kingdom than in Italy. Germany was well ahead in terms of value added generated by high-tech manufacturing, with almost EUR 50 billion, while the UK was ahead in KIS with just under EUR 100 billion. The average labour productivity in the EU 27 in high tech sectors was EUR 69 000. However, labour productivity in individual Member States varied considerably in relation to this average. As in the previous year Ireland remained in first position with an average labour productivity of EUR 145 000, followed by Luxembourg with EUR 115 000. Among the new Member States, only Cyprus was above the EU-27 average, with EUR 75 000, while labour productivity in Portugal, Italy and Greece hovered just below the EU average.

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