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tremendous untapped potential value for many sectors, but no specific intelligent‐large‐datahandling / brokering industrial sector exists. Furthermore, from an industrial adoption point of view, Europe is lagging behind US in Big Data technologies. A clear strategy to align supply and demand is needed as a way of increasing competitiveness of European industries.
2. BIG objectives
Building an Industrial community around Big Data in Europe is the priority of this project, together with setting up the required collaboration and dissemination infrastructure to link technology suppliers, integrators and leading user organizations. BIG is working towards the definition and implementation of a strategy that includes research and innovation, but also, technology adoption.
The following list provides a more specific formulation of BIG objectives:
• Setting up an industrially‐led initiative around Big Data to contribute to EU competitiveness and position it in Horizon 2020.
• Elaborate an integrated roadmap that takes into consideration technical, business and policy aspects, focusing not only on pure technical issues, but also establishing priorities based on expected impact.
• Ensure that technical research areas selected by the project cover the needs detailed by the industry in different application domains.
• Promote the adoption of earlier waves of big data technology.
• Define and promote actions dealing with policy and regulation, including aspects such as data security, intellectual property, privacy, liability and data access.
• To carry out dissemination actions targeting different stakeholders and players in the value chain.
3. BIG approach
BIG is not only addressing technical aspects, it is considering the current state of the art of different sectors that could benefit from the use of Big Data technologies and will ensure that the requirements coming from industry, but also from public organizations, are taken into consideration. Foundational research technologies are being analysed and assessed in BIG, so the business and operational communities understand the potential of these technologies and are enabled to deploy appropriate strategies and applications for their benefit. To maximize the success of this initiative BIG has selected a balanced set of partners representing specialized Academia and Industry.
Figure 1: Structure of BIG approach
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