Advanced Technologies for Industry Policy Brief Reports
This leaflet gives an overview of the Policy Brief reports that are provided by the Advanced Technologies for Industry project.
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The Policy Briefs analyse national and regional policy measures focused on a specific policy challenge, technological area or mode of implementation and explore policy tools that have been designed and implemented with the aim of fostering the generation and uptake of advanced technologies. The reports provide a comparative analysis of some of the most relevant national and regional examples on the policy landscape in the EU. They highlight the lessons learnt based on existing policy evaluations, monitoring or any other learning process and will present both good practices and potentially the bad ones. In the case of novel policy initiatives, they focus on the key challenges in the design process.
Impact of technological transformation on regional development
This report focuses on highlighting recent research findings about the impact of technological transformation on regional development and discusses the related policy implications by bringing examples of concrete policy measures.
Industrial recovery and technology policy
This report focuses on a review and analysis of recent policy actions across EU Member States that address the industrial recovery through research, technology and innovation. The report begins by identifying the main drivers of industrial transformation before and after Covid-19.
Collaborative robots, human-AI systems and the role for policy
This report focuses on analysing the consequences of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics-based automation on industry and work, the related human-machine systems and human-computer interaction, and the need for policy to support a positive transition and mitigate the potential risks. Automa
Industrial and technology clusters and cluster-based policies in times of Covid-19
The way technology is produced and diffused across different countries and regions tends to be uneven.
Scaling up technology startups
Scaleups have been found to drive innovation and investment activities and are also key to foster the digital and green transitions of our times. Over half of the high-growth startups implement digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence or Big Data.
Cybersecurity: more investment and better skills
As digital transformation is accelerating around the world and an increasingly larger share of the interactions is hosted online, citizens, companies and governments are being more and more exposed to cyber threats and digital crimes.
Meeting the sectoral skills challenge in advanced technologies
Skills and talent are key to enable the digital and technological transformation process and safeguard the competitiveness of European industry given the fact that innovation comes from the creativity and skills of individuals.
Responsible digital transformation – the bridge between digital and circular economy policies
European industry is facing technological, socio-political and climate change challenges. The transition to climate neutrality is the most urgent challenge of our times and calls for bold and courageous actions for and by industry.
Slovakia: Smart Industry
Inspired by similar initiatives implemented in Germany and the Netherlands, the Ministry of Economy first presented the Smart Industry concept for Slovakia at a high-level conference in March 2016. The government adopted the strategic direction of the paper on the 29th of October2016
