This project is sponsored by:

Contact:

Judith Harris

Birmingham Business School
Edgbaston Park Road
Birmingham B15 2TT

Email:

servicegap@contacts.bham.ac.uk

This project is funded by the European Commission, Research Directorate General as part of the 7th Framework Programme, Theme 8: Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities.

Grant Agreement no: 244 552

Welcome to SERVICEGAP

The Impact of Service Sector Innovation and Internationalisation on Growth and Productivity

In the past decade the performance of service industries has come to the forefront of research on Europe's comparative economic performance, especially as the benefits from the use of information and communications technology (ICT) have been concentrated in these industries. The SERVICEGAP project will consider the academic and policy concerns that arise from the increasing importance of the market service sector. It will consider developments in productivity and its drivers within market services, linkages between services and manufacturing industries, innovation in delivery and the increasing internationalisation of services. The overall objective of this research is to produce a comprehensive study on the impact of market services on aggregate economic growth in the EU and its comparative performance relative to competitor regions, especially the US.

Prof Mary O'Mahony talks to IVIE about measuring services

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Kick-off meeting, June 2010

The project kick-off meeting was held at Birmingham Business School on 14 and 15 June 2010. The meeting was a great success, with many productive discussions on the work to be done on the various workpackages. A full report on the meeting will be available from the Conferences and Events page shortly.