Key Enabling Technologies

verabschiedet on 12/12/2012
Referenz
INT/651-EESC-2012-01-01-1899
Opinion Type
Referral
Referral
COM(2012) 341 final
Official Journal
OJ C 44, 15.2.2013, p. 88
Rapporteur
Mr Peter Morgan
Employers - GR I
United Kingdom
Plenary session number
485
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Key points: 

The EESC:

  • is generally supportive of the action plan in the communication;
  • stresses the need for more emphasis on building up the capacity of EU manufacturing companies which satisfy the market pull for new technologies, as opposed to this scheme's apparent tactics that rely on pushing new technologies towards the market;
  • draws attention to essential background factors which jeopardise the efficiency of the action plan, for example scarcity of venture capital, lagging state aid modernisation and unclear governance of the project;
  • considers trade negotiations in hi-tech industries and improvements to education and training at all levels, with a special emphasis on engineers and scientists, to be crucial.

Earlier EESC opinion

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