Sustainable and Dynamic Competitiveness towards Technological Leadership of Industry 4.0: Implications for East African Community

Table 3

Industry 4.0 initiatives launched in Europe.

S/N	Country	Industry 4.0 strategic initiatives	Year	Funding	Reference(s)
1	United Kingdom	High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC) or Catapult centres	2013	Public	[27]
		Digital Academy (DA) or UK Digital Strategy	2017	Public	[1]
		National Innovation Plan (NIP)	2016	Public	[72]
		Innovate UK (future of manufacturing (FOM))	2013	Public	[72]
2	France	Industrie du futur (IdF) or alliance pour l’industrie du futur (AIdF) or Industry of the Future	2015	Public	[26, 75]
		La Nouvelle France industrielle (LNFI) or new France industry (NFI)	2013	Public	[26, 76]
		French Fab (FF) (Made in France)	2017	Public	[27]
3	Italy	Piano Nazionale Industria 4.0 or Piano Impressa 4.0	2016	Public	[77]
		Intelligent factory clusters (CFI) (Fabbrica intelligente)	2012	Private	[26]
4	Portugal	PRODUCTECH	2015	Public	[26]
5	Sweden	Made in Sweden 2030	2014	Public	[78]
		Produktion 2030	2013	Public	[26, 79]
6	Belgium	Made Different	2013	Public	[26, 74]
7	Switzerland	Industry 2025	2015	Public	[10]
8	Netherlands	Smart Industry	2014	Public	[74, 79]
9	Finland	Industrial Internet Business Revolution	2015	Public	[80]
		IoT Pilot Factory (IoT PFF)	2017	Public	[80]
10	Poland	Future Industry Platform	2015	Public	[81]
11	Czech Republic	Prumysl 4.0	2013	Public	[26, 81]
12	Estonia	Digital Agenda 2020	2015	Public	[82]
		E-society Estonia	2012	Public	[82]
13	Croatia	Digitization Impulse 2020—industry of the future	2016	Public	[24]
14	Latvia	Demola (Riga IT TechHub)	2017	Public	[26]
15	Demark	MADE	2012	Public	[26, 80]
16	Hungary	IPAR 4.0 National technology platform/Irinyi plan	2017	Public	[81]
17	Bulgaria	Kontseptsia Industria 4.0	2017	Public	[81]
18	Romania	National Strategy for Romania Digital Agenda 2020	2017	Public	[81]
19	Lithuania	Pramone 4.0	2017	Public	[81]
20	Austria	TUWin 4.0	2013	Public	[32]
		Platform Industry 4.0	2014	Public	[32]
		Industry 4.0 Austria	2015	Public	[32]
21	Slovenia	Slovenia Digital Coalition/Slovenia Industrial Policy 2013	2013	Public	[81]
22	Slovakia	Smart Industry Platform	2016	Public	[26, 81]
23	Ireland	Ireland’s Industry 4.0 Strategy	2019	Public	[83]
24	Spain	Industria Conectada 4.0	2017	Public	[26, 72]
		5G Digital Agenda	2018	Public	[40]
25	Germany	Industrie 4.0 (I4.0) and Plattform Industrie 4.0 (PI4.0)	2011 & 2013	Public-private	[39, 84–87]
		Mittelstand 4.0	2012	Public-private	[88, 89]
		Digital Strategy (DS) 2025 and High-Tech Strategy (HTS) 2025	2016 & 2018	Public	[88, 90]
		AI Strategy	2018	Public	[88]
		Shaping digitalization implementation strategy for the federal government (SDISFG)	2018	Public	[88, 91]