{"id":46936,"date":"2023-10-06T14:20:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grayling.com\/news-and-views\/how-is-the-eu-nurturing-its-geek-economy\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T14:20:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:20:45","slug":"how-is-the-eu-nurturing-its-geek-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grayling.com\/es\/news-and-views\/how-is-the-eu-nurturing-its-geek-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"How is the EU nurturing its \u2018Geek\u2019 economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While writing the previous article<\/a> on the \u2018Gig\u2019 economy, I started to think about the wider EU digital, or as I amicably refer to it, the \u2018Geek\u2019, economy, what its participants actually need from policymakers, and what are the latter actually doing to meet the needs of the former?<\/p>\n

For decades, the EU\u2019s tech and digital entrepreneurs have been raising concerns over the fragmentation of EU\u2019s tech market, which makes it extremely difficult for start-ups to scale in the current regulatory spaghetti bowl of divergent Member State laws. EU tech companies have been constantly highlighting<\/a> this issue as the most serious obstacle to their success.<\/p>\n

So, what has the EU done over the course of its current term (2019-2023) to meet the needs of its geek entrepreneurs and unlock their potential?<\/p>\n

In brief, I think it has gone the long way round. The EU seemed mostly preoccupied with tackling the dominance of big international (usually US) tech companies, rather than tackling the core of the demands<\/a> of EU\u2019s companies. Over the past 3 years, the EU put out a dozen legislative proposals aimed at the tech sector which I will give a brief (and in no-way unbiased) summary below:<\/p>\n