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| Author: | Kirkpatrick, D. |
| Title: | Europe's technology gap is getting scary |
| Journal: | Fortune
1997 : MAR, VOL. 135:5, p. 18-19 |
| Index terms: | EUROPE, WEST COMPETITION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER INDUSTRY INDUSTRIAL DYNAMICS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Europe does not produce much infotech and it's businesses are not using much either. This has bad implications for European industry as a whole. American high-tech companies are aware of the trend and have been issuing warnings about the risks to Europe's industrial competitiveness. There are a lot of reasons for Europe's technological lag, including ongoing economic weakness and an aversion to tools considered "American", especially in France. Europe does have technological success in some smaller countries. Computer gap with U.S. is also narrower among small firms, and Europe is actually ahead of the U.S. in the use of digital cellular phones as well as in the use of electronic smart cards. but these are only a few bright points. |
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