Europe needs to steal a march on rivals by helping its companies do more with their vast output of industrial data, France’s EU commissioner has said in a fresh sign of Brussels’ concern over how the continent’s companies stave off competition from the US and China. Thierry Breton told the Financial Times that he was preparing plans to help EU companies to capitalise more on the electronic information they generate after Europe fell behind the US tech sector during the personal data revolution. “I will make sure we will not miss the new wave of industrial data,” Mr Breton said in an interview last week. Read More...
Europe needs to steal a march on rivals by helping its companies do more with their vast output of industrial data, France’s EU commissioner has said in a fresh sign of Brussels’ concern over how the continent’s companies stave off competition from the US and China. Thierry Breton told the Financial Times that he was preparing plans to help EU companies to capitalise more on the electronic information they generate after Europe fell behind the US tech sector during the personal data revolution. “I will make sure we will not miss the new wave of industrial data,” Mr Breton said in an interview last week.
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