Title :
Developing an EC Computer Policy, 1965–1974
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Louvain, Namur, Belgium
Abstract :
In the late 1960s, the European Community (EC) Commission tried to develop a common industrial policy to help Europe establish a competitive position in the informatics sector. Before the middle of the 1970s, only a few of its projects were realized, and the most important were abandoned. The lack of progress appears fundamentally due to the member states´ reluctance to relinquish control of this key sector.
Keywords :
government policies; EC Computer policy development; European Community Commission; industrial policy; informatics sector; Collaboration; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer industry; Europe; Industrial economics; Informatics; Manufacturing industries; Metals industry; Power generation economics; Steel; COST; European Commission; European Economic Community; Prest; Unidata; computers; industrial policy; informatics; research policy;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2010.17
