Abstract
The European nations do not have many choices in the face of the growing American and Japanese dominance in the fields of high technology:
-
1.
They can undergo joint technological progress following the successful precedence of some joint European projects such as ARIANE, AIRBUS, ESPRIT and JET.
-
2.
If not, they can act separately and be confronted with gradual technological and economic decline.
The joint European research project EUREKA is conceived as a means of facing the technological challenge posed by the American SDI. However, it would not be correct to present EUREKA as a direct ‘response’ to SDI. For the United States, SDI may lead to substantial progress in all fields of advanced technology, The Europeans must act today on these developments if they do not want to let this unique opportunity of overcoming a technological gap (and preventing it widening) pass them by. This does not imply that EUREKA should imitate the American initiative. Neither its objectives nor its organisation are the same.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
Ministry of Industrial Trade and Industry, Features of the Industrial Development of Japan (Tokyo: MITI, March 1983).
NAA, Scientific and Technical Committee, Interim Report of the Sub-Committee on Advanced Technology and Technology Transfer by Mr Lothar Ibrügger, Rapporteur (Brussels: North Atlantic Assembly, November 1984).
At the Community level, the ESPRIT programme (European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Tech-nologies) represents a public- and private-sector investment to a total of 1.5 million ECU for the period 1984–5. See, for example, Commission of the European Communities, Memorandum Towards a European Technology Community COM, (85) 350 final (Brussels: European Commission, 25 June 1985).
CESTA (ed.), Eureka, la chance technologique de l’Europe, propositions françaises (Paris: CESTA, June 1985).
Ministre de la Défense, Rapport au Parlement sur l’exécution et la réévaluation de la loi de programmation militaire 1984–1988 (Paris: Defense Ministry, June 1985) p. 10.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 1987 Hans Günter Brauch
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Carton, A. (1987). EUREKA: a West European Response to the Technological Challenge posed by the SDI Research Programme. In: Brauch, H.G. (eds) Star Wars and European Defence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08615-3_10
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08615-3_10
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-08617-7
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-08615-3
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies CollectionPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)