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First-ever truck CO2 standards should be agreed soon, but avoid copying EU approach to cars

October 4, 2018

Every other year in September, the global truck industry meets in Hanover for the International Motor Show dedicated to commercial vehicles. Given that ACEA represents the EU’s seven major truck manufacturers, we were also present in Hanover to set out the industry’s joint position on the EU proposal for truck CO2 standards. Most notably, we… » read more

Posted by Secretary General of the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA)

blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Energy, Innovation & Enterprise, Transport

Patent trolls are increasingly targeting Europe’s innovators

June 21, 2018

Guest blog post by Patrick Oliver, Executive Director Intellectual Property 2 Innovate (IP2Innovate) IP2I member companies have direct experience of being attacked by Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), also known as patent trolls, and are concerned about their increasing litigation activity in Europe and its harmful effect on Europe’s digital economy. PAEs are financial vehicles that… » read more

Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, digital, Innovation & Enterprise

How electronics can drive inclusivity in mobility

June 18, 2018

Guest blog post by Lionel Rudant, Strategic Marketing, CEA-Leti and Bernard Strée, European Research Program, CEA-Leti The Industrial Revolution beginning in the mid-18th Century and its periodic echoes were driven by electronic miniaturisation that led to massive, low-cost production of consumer goods. From now on, new technologies will be deployed and adopted based on the… » read more

Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Global Europe, Innovation & Enterprise

, Editor's Choice

Quel est l’impact des Smart Cities au niveau mondial ?

June 1, 2018

Objet de tous les fantasmes, les Smart Cities, les villes du futur à la fois intelligentes et hyperconnectées, prennent de plus en plus d’importance. Que ce soit au cœur des mégalopoles ou dans les communes rurales, le numérique se met au service de l’environnement, de l’économie et des habitants. Petit tour d’horizon des initiatives qui… » read more

Posted by Green Europe

blogactiv, Energie, Innovation & Enterprise

Formulating a Response to Fake News: The Long Path Ahead

May 29, 2018

Guest blog post by Edward Danks, Programme Coordinator, European Institute for Asian studies As new, digital platforms have precipitated journalistic innovation, the simultaneous rise of fake news and the spread of disinformation throughout the media has left the industry in a state of flux. The implications of this issue however, spread far beyond the undermining… » read more

Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, média

, Editor's Choice

Europe’s tech centre of gravity is shifting east

April 25, 2018

Guest blog post by Eva Maydell. Maydell is a Member of the European Parliament from Bulgaria. When it comes to technology pioneers in Europe, Estonia often gets the plaudits, and deservedly so. Europe is not always good at talking up its efforts and successes in technology so any recognition is not just welcome – it’s… » read more

Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, digital, EU Citizens & Media, EurActiv.com, Innovation & Enterprise

What we should learn from Cambridge Analytica

April 16, 2018

Guest blog post by Stefano Quintarelli, Member of Parliament, Italy. Two weeks after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it’s time to draw some conclusions and try to advance the debate with some structural proposals. Facts are clear: large-scale usage of a massive amount of user’s profiles collected from unaware and non-participating users, utilized to systematically… » read more

Posted by The Guest Blog

Better regulation, blogactiv, digital, EU Citizens & Media, EurActiv.com, Future EU, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth

Data Protection: The Issue of the 21st Century

April 4, 2018

If the Cambridge Analytica data mining scandal has hammered home one thing, it is that data is the fuel keeping our increasingly digitized economies running. Whistle-blower Christopher Wylie, who testified last Tuesday to the House of Commons’ select committee on the matter, said as much when he compared data to electricity in our modern societies.… » read more

Posted by The Euro Economy

blogactiv, Future EU, Innovation & Enterprise

Standing up for international trade amid tariff threats and Brexit fears

March 30, 2018

Trade is a major pillar of our sector’s global competitiveness. In this respect, both Brexit and recent threats about ‘walling off’ national markets are posing a serious threat to jobs and growth in the European automotive industry. EU auto manufacturers exported more than 6.1 million motor vehicles last year, generating a trade surplus of more… » read more

Posted by Secretary General of the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA)

blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Global Europe, Innovation & Enterprise, Transport

How to make innovation thrive when you’re not London, Paris, or Berlin

Guest post by Johan Merlevede. Merlevede is the director of Leuven MindGate, an association that represents the knowledge, high-tech, and healthcare sectors in Leuven, Belgium. Shout the phrase ‘innovation hub’ into a crowd of European techies or start-up fanatics and they’ll probably assume you’re talking about one of the grand capitals known for their… » read more

Posted by The Guest Blog

Better regulation, blogactiv, digital, EurActiv.com, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth

Improving sentiment analysis via crowdsourcing: A testrun with CrowdFlower and StockTwits, and Pybossa

March 19, 2018

In order to test our assumptions and additionally get a better feeling for the crowdsourcing community we launched a very small-scaled job on CrowdFlower. The job was designed to let the crowd judge the sentiment of tweets from StockTwits regarding the mentioned company and it’s stock. To begin with, we collected 59 tweets for different… » read more

Posted by Social Sentiment Indices powered by X-Scores

blogactiv, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise

Fusing Textual, Audio and Visual Features for Sentiment Analysis

March 12, 2018

Sentiment analysis, particularly the automatic analysis of written reviews in terms of positive or negative valence, has been extensively studied in the last decade. On the other hand, automatic speaker’s sentiment extraction for audio streams containing spontaneous speech (like online videos) is a challenging area of research that has received little attention in the last… » read more

Posted by Social Sentiment Indices powered by X-Scores

blogactiv, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise

SSIX and its Market Applications

March 6, 2018

Using data from different social media platforms, blogs and news publications, Social Sentiment Indices powered by X-Scores (SSIX) aims to provide its customers with a set of tools they can use to assess the public sentiment towards a broad field of different topics. Such sentiment analysis can help to make well-informed decisions about e.g. investments,… » read more

Posted by Social Sentiment Indices powered by X-Scores

blogactiv, Euro & Finance, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise

Digitalisation and the future of auto retailing

January 31, 2018

Every year, the month of January kicks off with the Brussels Motor Show. While the latest cars on display there clearly proved that vehicles are undergoing a not-so-quiet revolution, coming with state-of-the-art connectivity technology and an expanding range of powertrain options, there are also other players in the automotive supply chain that are changing rapidly.… » read more

Posted by Secretary General of the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA)

blogactiv, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise, Transport