The Smart Industry (SI) initiative was launched in November 2014 by the government and industry stakeholders. The objectives are to strengthen the Dutch manufacturing industry position and increase industrial productivity.
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The Technology Watch explores the futuristic, upcoming technologies that are on the horizon of technology development today and that are characterised by high speed of evolution and a significative disruptive potential. Advanced Technology Watch is addressed to policy-makers, enterprises (large and SMEs) and business intermediaries. It allows them to better assess the maturity of technologies, the potential market applications and the technical adaptation required to bring advanced technologies to the market.
“Industrie 4.0”(Industry 4.0 (I40)) is a national strategic initiative from the German government through the Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWI).
“Connected Industry 4.0 (CI4.0)” was announced in 2014 aiming at digitising and enhancing competitiveness of Spain’s industrial sector. The initiative equally seeks to provide a strategy to support companies in their digital transformation.
The cross-cutting “Industrie du Futur” (Industry of the Future(IdF)) programme was launched by the French government in April2015.It aims to support companies to deploy digital technologies,to transform companies and business models as well as to modernise production practices.
The High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC) is the UK’s national initiative to increase the competitiveness and value added of its manufacturing industry. As the first and largest of eleven national catapults under the programme, the HVMC is composed of seven technology centres.
The prosperity of connected cars also propel the progress of autonomous driving, which is commonly agreed by the auto industry as “the capability of a car to drive partly or fully by itself, with limited or no human intervention”.
