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of the roadmap will highlight cross‐sectorial issues; this will be accompanied by a series of sectorial roadmaps that will ease the deployment and adoption of Big Data within the different application domains.
The last step of our initiative is to set up a Big Data Public‐Private Forum in the form of an industrially‐led initiative around Big Data to contribute to EU competitiveness that goes beyond the project duration. Another critical achievement will be to provide input to Horizon 2020 and its work programme 2014, contributing to the work done by the European Commission to support research and innovation in this area.
References
Big Data Public Private Forum Consortium( BIG)( 2012) BIG ‐ Big Data Public Private Forum website, [ online ], http:// www. big‐project. eu /.
Big Data Public Private Forum Consortium( BIG)( 2012) Grant agreement for: Coordination and support action, Annex I ‐
" Description of Work ". European Commission( COM)( 2010) EUROPE 2020 ‐ A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. McKinsey Global Institute( 2011) Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity, [ online ], http:// www. mckinsey. com / mgi / publications / big _ data /.
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