Brussels, 27/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - In the European Union, employment is growing faster in high tech industries and knowledge-intensive services than in traditional industry, but Research and Development investment is lagging behind the United States and Japan. These are the main conclusions drawn in "A statistical panorama of the EU knowledge-based economy" which has just been published by Eurostat.
The Statistical Office of the European Communities notes that in 1998, Japan spent 3.03%...