Traduction de «technologie critique » (Français → Anglais) :

Protecting citizens and critical infrastructures: law enforcement and other key authorities need to be better prepared for security risk related to the vulnerability of critical infrastructure, ensure efficient exchange of relevant information, design preventive measures in a coordinated manner across borders and support research on future technological and capability needs;

The selection of themes will take into account excellence in science-driven research towards future technologies, potential for creating a critical mass and impact on science and technology.

· Continue to coordinate the Commission's efforts with those of Member States, ESA and EDA in order to identify the critical space components and to ensure their availability; · Examine whether it is feasible to boost the emerging Earth observation market through incentives such as long term contracts with Earth observation industry; · Promote the use of space-based applications in EU policies; · Support awareness raising campaigns to make possible users (cities, regions, various industrial sectors, etc) aware of the potential of space-based applications, thus stimulate their needs for such applications and facilitate with ad hoc take ...[+++] up actions (e.g. vouchers for local authorities or SMEs) the adoption of new services by the final users; · Support the development of innovation support measures to industry at EU, national and regional level with a specific focus on SMEs in the downstream satellite-enabled services sector; · Implement the Commission GNSS Action Plan to foster the development and adoption of satellite navigation applications using EGNOS and Galileo; · Support space technology cross-fertilisation with other sectors and spin-in/spin-offs in RD and Innovation programmes.

‘Technology’ according to the General Technology Note for the ‘development’ or ‘production’ of electronic devices and circuits, specially designed for telecommunications and containing components manufactured from ‘superconductive’ materials, specially designed for operation at temperatures below the ‘critical temperature’ of at least one of the ‘superconductive’ constituents and having any of the following:

According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey 7% of new entrepreneurs [11] create a significant new market niche or economic sector if their business is successful, whereas 70% of new enterprises are providing products or services in existing markets where there is already considerable competition and where the critical technology has been available for more than a year.

Whilst this indicator is a useful measure of a countries' comparative advantage in innovative industries it can be criticised on the basis that the choice of which products constitute high-tech products has to be somewhat arbitrary and at the theoretical level not all countries will wish to specialise in high-tech exports if their comparative advantage lies elsewhere.