PwC asked leaders of European private businesses to tell us how relevant key technologies are for their business and whether they are already using them. The most popular technology: Internet of things (IoT), by a wide margin. That corresponds to how European private businesses see digitalisation.  Robotics followed, with Denmark reporting the strongest levels of usage (50%).

The European Commission's 2019 European Innovation Scoreboard and Regional Innovation Scoreboard published recently show that the EU's innovation performance has been improving for four years in a row. For the first time ever, Europe's innovation outperforms that of the United States. However, the EU continues to lose some ground to Japan and South Korea, and China is catching up fast, European Commission says in a press release.