The PICASSO project issued a report “Analysis of Industrial Drivers and Societal Needs: towards new avenues in EU-US ICT collaboration”. It provides an analysis of EU-US industrial drivers and societal needs/barriers, and highlights initial proposals for collaboration opportunities which will be discussed, refined and prioritised by the Expert Groups in the next stages of the PICASSO project.
In total 150 key actors in EU and US were approached for the questionnaire and 70 face-to-face interviews were conducted with key industrial actors from large, mid-cap and SME companies from the EU and US in the Smart Cities, Smart Transportation and Smart Energy sectors. The interviews focused on societal challenges and the application domains, but also including elements related to technological issues, needs, trends and funding needs. Information was also gathered on both industrial drivers and barriers to exploitation, e.g. regulations, lack of standards, lack of business models. This identified potential recommendations related to 5G, Big Data and IoT/CPS domains, with some common themes put forward in terms of the needs for e.g. standards for interoperability of interconnects, wireless communications, protocols and for data exchange.