ABSTRACT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is now a global happening that is requiring cooperation at international level to address its key challenges. Europe has established as a priority the international cooperation on IoT research and innovation. This chapter reports on European Union international cooperation activities with partner countries and regions on the IoT. South Korea is known early adopter of new technology and ranked in IDC’s ‘IoT Index’ for 2013. South Korea government has established the ‘Mid- and Long-term R&D plan for IoT’ that links existing R&D projects classified into parts of the entire ecosystem. One of the key criteria that the South Korean government highlights in strategy and planning is ‘Open Innovation and Open Platform’. In China, the IoT has become an important carrier for strategic information industries and integrated innovation. From a macroscopic perspective, China’s IoT application development presents two typical types: “focus-oriented objective” and “overall and global covering objective”.
