The objective of this project is to look at the potential role of the EU in supporting ICT capacity-building in low-income countries....
In response to concerns of losing technological superiority, the US is implementing the Defense Innovation Initiative. This intends to ensure that the Pentagon leverages breakthrough technologies from the traditional defence industrial base and commercial-technology sector alike. Also, what role...
The pilot project The Future of Manufacturing in Europe is an explorative and future-oriented study. It explores the future adoption of some key game-changing technologies and how this adoption can be promoted, even regionally. The analysis of implications for working life focuses primarily on t...
This document provides a technical background and offers a practical guide to Industry on how to encode, prepare and complete a dossier compliant with the poison centres notification format (hereafter PCN format). The XML content and the inner structure of the PCN format is explained in a simple...
Industrial symbiosis (IS) is a systems approach to a more sustainable and integrated industrial system, which identifies business opportunities that leverage underutilised resources (such as materials, energy, water, capacity, expertise, assets etc.) (Lombardi & Laybourn, 2012). IS involves orga...
The Broadband Cost Reduction Directive (BB CRD) of 2014 aims to reduce the costs of deploying high-speed broadband networks through facilitating shared use and coordinated deployment of physical infrastructure within the electronic communications sector and across other sectors such as energy, t...
This overview report synthesises and compares industrial policy capacity within nine European case study regions which have been analysed as part of the pilot project Future of Manufacturing in Europe. The regions analysed are industrial and manufacturing powerhouses of their respective countrie...
