Identifying ICT poles of excellence, and potential for ‘big data’ approaches in policy support

Posted on July 10, 2014 by DigiSTIS

Informal Seminar
Dr Giuditta de Prato, JRC-IPTS, European Commission

Friday 11 July 10:00-11:30
Seminar Room, Old Surgeons Hall,
High School Yards

Dr Giuditta de Prato, of the European Commission DG Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) will present an informal seminar on the IPTS work to identify and analyse leading technology innovation centres to support EC industry policy.

This was conducted as part of the European ICT Poles of Excellence (EIPE) project for DG CNECT.

She will present the results of the study, and discuss the methodology for creating indicators using multiple data sets. This will be followed by thoughts on how this policy research of this type can be carried forward using ‘big data’ techniques.

Dr Giuditta De Prato

Giuditta De Prato is a permanent staff member at the JRC IPTS working on projects on the economic aspects of the Information Society and on the impacts of Information Society Technologies, mainly focusing on ICT R&D, the software sector, patents and innovation, including projects such as PREDICT . She uses social network analysis, data mining and qualitative methods, bring together national statistics, company data, and technology-based indicators.

She has a PhD in Economics and Institutions from the University of Bologna (Italy). Before joining IPTS, she was a software developer and IT consultant from 1992 to 2005. Before joint the European Commission, in 2009 she was a research assistant, focussing on research activities on local development, evaluation, ICT and open source at the University of Bologna, where she also lectured on macroeconomics and environmental economics.

Recent publications cover topics such as the internationalisation of ICT R&D, with a focus on Asia and Europe, the structure of the video games industry, and she recently co-edited a book, Digital Media Worlds, The New Economy of Media (Palgrave, 2014)

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