Strategic Insights into the EU's Advanced Manufacturing Industry: Trends and Comparative Analysis

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Table of Contents

• Contents 3
• Abstract 5
• Foreword 6
• Acknowledgements 7
• Authors 7
• Executive Summary 8
• Policy context 8
• Main findings 9
• Advanced Manufacturing 10
• The studys value-add to industrial policy discussions 11
• Data-driven industrial policy recommendations 12
• Quick guide to the online tool 12
• 1. Introduction 13
• The Industrial Forums Task Force on Advanced Manufacturing 13
• The Advanced Manufacturing study 13
• Interlinkages with European industrial policy 14
• EU Manufacturing at the Crossroads 15
• 2. The Global Landscape of the Advanced Manufacturing Industry 17
• 2.1. The EU in the global advanced manufacturing industry 17
• 2.2. Key technologies in advanced manufacturing 19
• 2.3. Market structure and competitiveness 22
• 2.4. An overview of the advanced manufacturing industry within the EU 29
• 3. Advanced manufacturing from the perspective of the industrial 32
• 3.1. The overlapping of advanced manufacturing with industrial 32
• 3.2. Manufacturing-oriented industrial ecosystems in the AM industry 33
• 3.2.1. A look at the geographical composition 34
• China leads in five of the nine considered ecosystem 34
• The large distance of China with respect to the other global competitors is mostly but not only due to the high number of AM related patents of Chinese players 34
• When looking at business activities the relative positioning of China the US and the EU appears less polarized 35
• 3.2.2. A look at the technological composition 37
• 3.3. Deep dives on selected industrial ecosystems 38
• 4. The EU position in investments and strategic dependencies 43
• 4.1. Ownership of advanced manufacturing firms 43
• 4.1.1. 43
• Foreign control of advanced manufacturing firms in the EU 43
• 4.1.2. EU control of advanced manufacturing firms abroad 45
• 4.2. Private investment in EU advanced manufacturing firms 45
• Conclusions 51
• References 52
• List of figures 54
• Figure 1 54
• Figure 2. 54
• Figure 3 54
• Figure 4 54
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• List of tables 56
• Table 1 56
• Table 2 56
• Table 3 56
• Table 4. 56
• Annex I - DGTES for the analysis of advanced manufacturing 57
• Advanced manufacturing definitions scope and features 57
• DGTES a policy-oriented analytical approach for the analysis of advanced manufacturing 58
• Data sources 61
• Table 3 61
• Annex II - An online tool to explore the advanced manufacturing industry 62
• Figure 43 62
• Annex III - Firm-level data for market structure and competitiveness analysis 63
• Annex IV - Advanced Technologies in Advanced Manufacturing 65
• Table 4 65
• Annex V- Keyword list 68
• 5G and beyond Autonomous Networks Communications Telecommunications and connectivity 68
• Advanced Computing High Performance Computing HPC 68
• Artificial Intelligence AI 68
• Autonomous Systems Robotics Advanced Machine Tools 68
• Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technologies DLT 69
• Cybersecurity Safety Security Digital Identity 69
• Big Data Dynamic Data 69
• Electronics Semiconductors Power Electronics 69
• Extended Reality Virtual Reality Augmented reality Metaverses 70
• Infrastructure Cloud Computing Digital Platform IaaS SaaS PaaS on-line platforms Social Networks Internet 70
• Internet of Things AIDC Automatic Identification and Data Capture 70
• Quantum technologies 70
• Biotechnologies 70
• Advanced Materials 70
• Getting in touch with the EU 71