It is very big IT industry led. With tenuous relationships between academia, public sector and industry. The nature of data types also differs, with an emphasis on flow and near real time data and the aim is economic development. Austerity makes it so.
The EU is also a very large presence when it comes to regulation.
Soo interesting.
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