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Brexit and industry & space policy

Testimony before the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE).

Publishing date
25 September 2018
Authors
Reinhilde Veugelers

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Overview of the potential implications of Brexit for EU27 Industry and Space Policy

On 24 September 2018, Reinhilde Veugelers testified before the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE).

She provided an overview of the changing environment of Europe’s economic activities and the resulting implications for the post-Brexit industrial policy. In the face of EU’s increased integration within the Global Value Chains (GVCs), the author argued the need for a horizontal policy agenda that comprises an open trade policy with extra-EU and industrial policy intra-EU.

She also highlighted the importance of pivotal sectors and markets monitoring and outlined the challenges facing Europe’s innovation capacity.

A video of the testimony is available here.

About the authors

  • Reinhilde Veugelers

    Reinhilde Veugelers is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. She specialises in industrial organisation, innovation and science. 

    Recently, she has covered novelty in technology development; international technology transfers through multinational enterprises; global innovation value chains; young innovative companies; innovation for climate change; industry-science links and their impact on firms’ innovative productivity; evaluation of research and innovation policy; explaining scientific productivity; researchers’ international mobility and novel scientific research.

    She speaks English, Dutch and French.

    Reinhilde is also a Professor at KU Leuven at the Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She is a CEPR Research Fellow and a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences, the Academia Europeana, the Board of Reviewing Editors of the journal Science and a co-PI on the Science of Science Funding Initiative at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). From 2004-2008, she was on academic leave as advisor at the European Commission (Bureau of European Policy Analysis). She served on the European Research Council's (ERC) Scientific Council from 2012-2018 and on the Real-time earthquake risk reduction for a resilient Europe (RISE) Expert Group, advising the commissioner for Research. She holds a PhD in Economics from KU Leuven.

    Websites:
    https://feb.kuleuven.be/reinhilde.veugelers
    https://bruegel.org/author/reinhilde-veugelers/

Theme
Macroeconomic policy and governance Microeconomic policies
Keyword
innovation industrial policy european parliament EU-UK relations
Language
English

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