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Volume 9, Issue 1.
Winter
The recent European Community (EC) decision to fund a new high- technology program known as ESPRIT (European Strategic Program for Research in Technology) is a major step towards EC unity in an area of growing importance. The development of information technology is a field in which Europe has been falling far behind the United States and Japan in ... read morerecent years. In this article Pierre-Henri Laurent discusses the pressures behind the EC agreement to establish ESPRIT. He analyzes future European requirements in the information sector and the impact which ESPRIT could have on the European economy in general. ESPRIT marks a major new European initiative towards closing the gap between the levels of European and U.S. Japanese technological development, he argues. Mr. Laurent reviews the problems inherent in a program requiring long-term economic and political support from all EC members and suggests areas where short- term results could help promote the program. The author concludes by assessing the prospects of EC unity in sustaining support for ESPRIT and the consequences for all involved if this new program fails.
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