Remember the Lisbon Strategy? That was the European Union’s grand plan, set out in March 2000, to make the bloc “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world” within a decade.Well, 2010 came and went, and Europe didn’t look much more competitive or dynamic than it had a decade earlier.So what did E.U. leaders do next? They drafted a new 10-year plan. The resulting Digital Agenda for Europe, adopted last year, contains 101 “actions” aimed at improving high-technology competitiveness.To demonstrate that it really means business this time, the European Commission published a “scoreboard” last week to measure progress toward the 2020 goals.
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