For Europe to achieve world leadership, urgent action is required to create competitive products, sustain high levels of innovation and maintain world-class skills. This requires:
Strategic public-private partnerships with strong user industries sharing their long-term visions with research partners, and mobilising a critical mass of resources;
A research environment and infrastructures supporting relevant visionary research;
A favourable legal and financial environment; and
An education system delivering a skilled, multidisciplinary research, design and production workforce.
For Europe to achieve world leadership, urgent action is required to create competitive products, sustain high levels of innovation and maintain world-class skills. This requires: