(Click on the image to watch video. Mr Rifkin's lecture begins at 1:09:30)
Brussels, May 29th, 2012.
Jeremy Rifkin gave a keynote address at the European Commission's conference on green growth: Europe At The Lead Of The New Industrial Revolution, held in Brussels on May 29th. Mr. Rifkin outlined the European Union's Third Industrial Revolution vision and game plan. Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission, and Antonio Tajani, Vice President and Minister of Industry and Entrepreneurship, co-hosted the summit.
Vice President Tajani called for a comprehensive Third Industrial Revolution economic agenda to regrow the European economy and create an integrated European single market. Please find below a few quotes from Vice President Tajani's speech:
"Today is a good day for all of us, because today is the beginning of the Third Industrial Revolution. Now the European conversation will go beyond austerity, straight to creating growth and jobs in Europe. My slogan is: 'Without a new industrial policy, no growth, no jobs...'"
"...the first industrial revolution was the revolution of coal and steam, the second was the oil one. This Third Industrial Revolution is the internet of energy and it is not only about energy. It involves many key sectors, from raw materials, to manufacturing, services, construction, transport, Information Technologies and even chemistry."
"...because its energy sources are distributed and not centralized, and therefore scale laterally and not centrally, [The Third Industrial Revolution] is the ideal playground for SMEs.... our 2020 strategy puts us on the right path but we must now accelerate and put more resources on growth, and this must be based on sustainability, testing the edge of our technological frontiers..."
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