Source: The Next Web
EU businesses are accelerating AI adoption—20% now use it—but they're still trailing the US and China by significant margins, a gap that compounds competitive disadvantage in high-value sectors like software and manufacturing. The European lag reflects structural constraints: smaller average company size, fragmented regulatory uncertainty post-AI Act, and brain drain to Silicon Valley, not merely slower decision-making. Without targeted industrial policy to support mid-market AI implementation, Europe risks ceding entire categories of economic value creation to regions with faster deployment cycles.