Digital Tech: Europe's Growing Gap in Eight Charts

Despite major efforts in recent years, Europe and France are not on a reassuring trend in digital technologies. Between 2005 and 2019, the share of French digital R&D in the world fell from 6% to 2%, with Germany doing even worse, falling from 8% to 2%. Whether you count in Unicorns or in invested venture capital, the figures, even with strong growth, are on a similar trend: they are falling in proportion to the international environment. This is all the more worrying because both China and the United States have perfectly understood that economic, military and geopolitical domination will necessarily be achieved through digital technology in a time frame that can be described as short - a few years, one or two decades at most.

With Olivier Coste, a former member of Lionel Jospin's cabinet at Matignon in charge of industrial issues and now an entrepreneur based in New York, we are publishing with the Institut Montaigne an uncompromising analysis of the French and European situation and a list of recommendations on what needs to be done to get back in the race.

Here is the first part: https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/analysis/digital-tech-europes-growing-gap-eight-charts?_wrapper_format=html