Why is the EU struggling to scale artificial intelligence? – EUobserver
Why is the EU struggling to scale artificial intelligence? – EUobserver
https://euobserver.com/202965/why-is-the-eu-struggling-to-scale-artificial-intelligence/
Publish Date: 2026-02-13 10:23:00
Source Domain: euobserver.com
- The EU risks losing its innovation edge due to labour shortages, low patent applications, and insufficient R&D spending.
- Europe leads in AI research papers but lags behind the US and China in AI companies, market deployment, and computing power.
- The EU aims to boost its AI capabilities through significant investment and initiatives despite slow and uneven progress.
- Challenges include a later start in AI development, fragmented investment and governance, and lack of industrial platforms.
- Europe lacks the private venture capital investment prevalent in the US and China to compete, prompting initiatives to increase private capital in AI.
- The EU’s initiatives aim for technological sovereignty and to be a leading AI continent, though experts suggest a more strategic and sector-specific focus.
- The goal is to create infrastructure enhancing sectors like healthcare and scientific research, but success depends on incentivizing European alternatives and focusing on selected sectors.
