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The European Data Market (EDM) Monitoring Tool has been tracking the progression of the European Data Economy since 2013. This tool provides valuable insights and quantitative data on its industry and regional dissemination, significantly influencing European policy strategies in this domain.
EDM's monitoring and analysis efforts recognised big data's disruptive potential and highlighted the socio-economic importance of innovative data-driven transformative processes. The emergence of Artificial Intelligence tools and services powered by data also underlines the crucial role of data. The introduction of Common European Data Spaces advocated by the Commission has added further momentum to the European data economy.
The primary objective of the European Data Market Study 2024-2026 is to update and enhance the EDM Monitoring Tool, continuing to deliver the market intelligence, factual evidence, and insights on future developments necessary to support European policies in this domain over the next three years. The study is carried out through three interrelated streams of work focused on collecting and delivering factual evidence, data, and qualitative insights. Together, these efforts will contribute to the overarching goal of providing insights on progress towards policy targets.
Read the previous European Data Market Study 2021 - 2023.
I. Reports on Facts and Figures
These reports present the results obtained through three rounds of measurements of the European Data Market Monitoring Tool. They also include medium-term forecasts under three alternative scenarios.
- First Report on Facts and Figures: Full report and Complete figures presented in the report
II. EU Data Landscape reports
These reports aimed to capture the European data phenomenon and, at the same time, to provide insights on how stakeholders in the data economy develop year by year.
The Data Landscape provides a solid mapping of the main key players in the data economy. It uses objective and well-defined criteria to select the most promising big data companies in Europe with a special focus on the 'key data companies' category.
III. Data stories
These data stories provide, among other things, a number of data sharing practices from different sectors with the help of use cases:
The 2024-2026 EDM report "Story on the Common European Media Data Space" delves into the media sector, focusing on implementing the European Media Data Space and its anticipated benefits and impacts.
This data story provides an overview of data start-ups and scale-ups active in the health sector, with a quick overview of the data companies involved in the AI and drug discovery intersection as well as four deep-dive case studies.
This story presents an extensive analysis of data sharing in the European mobility sector with a focus on the Common European Mobility Data Space (EMDS). It leverages inputs from the first deployment project for the EMDS funded under the Digital Europe Programme and other European initiatives.
IV. Related documents
The Inception Report specifies the taxonomy and the methodology to be used during the lifetime of the study contract, as well as detailed information on the resources and objectives in accordance with the indications provided by the European Commission.