Angry Birds, Skype and Spotify may all be the product of European creativity, but if the old continent is ever going to challenge Silicon Valley for tech supremacy, it's going to have to do a lot better.
Acknowledging the global dominance of US brands such as Facebook, Google and Apple, the European Commission launched a campaign this week to encourage more technology entrepreneurship on Europe's side of the Atlantic.

"Europeans need to be creative and fearless," Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner responsible for digital issues and technology, said as she launched Startup Europe on Wednesday (20 March).

"That's how dozens of the world's most exciting web and tech companies were born in the EU, and I want the world to know it."

Kroes's campaign aims to help local innovators create and develop businesses while remaining in Europe. From January next year, it will be accompanied by a separate programme to provide research funding for European startups.
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