The EU Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA), proposed by the European Commission in March, aims to ensure Europe manufactures more of the technologies and industrial products it consumes.
Europe has historically been good at funding R&D and early-stage deep tech, but less successful at creating domestic markets for the resulting technologies. The IAA attempts to address the demand side through measures including public procurement.
But if "Made in EU" requirements are to strengthen European industrial sovereignty, how far upstream should they extend?
Christina Rebel is the CEO of CAD ROOMS, a female-founded engineering collaboration platform running on EU-hosted infrastructure and built specifically for distributed hardware engineering teams.
CAD ROOMS is a cloud-based product data management and collaboration platform that allows engineering teams to manage, review, and securely share CAD files across different design tools without replacing the CAD software they already use.
