Guiding the digital revolution: is European technology policy misguided?

Dai, Xiudian

Abstract

© The several contributors 2008. All rights reserved. The Commission promotes a competitive technology and related industrial policy through its coordination Framework Programmes. Commission funding is concentrated on a variety of Information Society Technologies. This chapter examines its role through two case studies of advanced television broadcasting technologies projects: High Definition Television (HDTV) and Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB). Competing leadership candidates with the Commission for HDTV included the French and Dutch national governments and major firms based on government-industry collusion in the service of competitiveness. The HDTV flagship project to meet the Japanese and American challenge, supported by the Commission and Council of Ministers with subsidies, was a failure of European technology policy. The DVB firm-led consortium has by contrast been market-driven and successful without public subsidy.

Citation

Dai, X. (2008). Guiding the digital revolution: is European technology policy misguided?. In J. Hayward (Ed.), Leaderless Europe (47 - 65). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199535026.003.0004

• Publication Date: May 29, 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 47 - 65
• Book Title: Leaderless Europe
• Chapter Number: 3
• ISBN: 9780199535026
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199535026.003.0004
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/399967
• Contract Date: Jan 1, 2008