Comment Neelie (Kroes)

[...] Indeed in just a few weeks I will be meeting industrial leaders in the electronics sector. It's time we started to integrate our innovation policy and our industrial policy. This is definitely a strategic sector – chips power almost everything we do, and enable innovation across the economy. Yet we need to get our act together, and pool the huge resources and talent on offer in Europe. Otherwise we'll see investments that are uncoordinated and ineffective, without global impact, money down the drain. And that's why in May I presented an ambitious European electronics strategy.