Key Enabling Technologies

EESC opinion: Key Enabling Technologies

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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