Today, the Commission presents an Action Plan on Synergies between civil, defence and space industries to further enhance Europe’s technological edge and support its industrial base. The Action Plan is devised against the background that, for the first time, EU funding presents opportunities to reinforce European innovation by exploring and exploiting the disruptive potential of […]
New EU Consortium shaping the future of Quantum Computing
A project consortium which includes startups, industry, research centers, supercomputing centers and academia has come together to accelerate Europe´s Quantum leadership efforts. IQM Quantum Computers will bring the members of this project consortium together and lead this project as a system integrator. Europe has always been excellent in academic research, but over the past few […]
Sustainable Cities and Investor Citizens – Making Urban Life Liveable Again?
Riots in the most important cities of Brazil started when taxes on public transport started to rise, just as Brazilians’ rights were going down. Mobility, and moreover, sustainable mobility, is extremely important for the fight against climate change and for the life of inhabitants. According to the United Nations, 70% of the world’s population will […]
‘Keep It Local’ Says Crowdfunding Innovator, Sweta Chattopadhyay
Supporting local businesses and community projects is the key to helping communities thrive. An innovative new crowdfunding platform, Localfunded, launched in late March unlocks much needed funding to help get local projects off the ground, and reward the backers of these projects with unique rewards, perks and discounts that they can’t get anywhere else. Founded […]
EU Firms Get Boost For Third Country Contract Bids
Plans for a tool to allow EU countries to prevent non-EU firms from bidding for public procurement contracts worth €5 million or more unless their home countries reciprocate by allowing EU firms to do likewise were approved by Parliament on Wednesday. The proposed tool, which could be used only with European Commission approval, should strengthen […]
SMEs Leading Big Business In Race To Full Digitalisation
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across Europe are moving much faster than their peers in larger organisations in the race to complete key digital transformation initiatives, according to research commissioned by Ricoh Europe. Almost two thirds of SMBs (64 per cent) expect to digitise their remaining physical documents within the next three years, compared to less than […]
Bah! Humbug! German New Orders Disappoint
Still zig-zagging. Festive cheer is lacking as new figures show German new orders disappointed in October, dropping by 2.2% MoM, from a 3.1% increase in September. On the year, new orders are still up by 1.9%. The drop was broadly driven by weaker foreign and domestic demand. German new orders have been on a zig-zag […]
Capgemini and Pivotal Announce Next Generation Big Data Partnership
Consulting, outsourcing and technology firm, Capgemini, and big data software company, Pivotal, announced today a new strategic partnership combining Capgemini’s business solutions expertise for big data and analytics with Pivotal’s market leading data platform technologies to deliver solutions for today’s increasingly data rich world. Capgemini and Pivotal are co-innovating around big data and analytics to address […]
Portugal Gets ‘Team Tajani’ Investment Promotion
Antonio Tajani, European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, was in Portugal, Friday, for a Mission for Growth with 800 entrepreneurs from Portugal, Europe and third countries. Tajani met the President of Portugal, Aníbal Cavaco Silva to address the economic crisis and discuss the need for growth policies to boost domestic demand and increase industrial competitiveness. […]
MEPs To Ban Non-EU Firms From EU Public Procurement, Unless There’s Reciprocation
A draft law that could bar non-EU firms from bidding for public procurement contracts in the EU unless their home countries allow EU firms reciprocal access to their public procurement markets was endorsed by the International Trade Committee on Thursday. The proposed “international public procurement instrument” should strengthen the EU’s hand in trade talks and […]