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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

    Prof Dr. Reinhilde Veugelers is a full professor at KULeuven (BE) at the Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation.  She has been a Senior fellow at Bruegel since 2009.  She is also a CEPR Research Fellow, a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and of the Academia Europeana. From 2004-2008, she was on academic leave, as advisor at the European Commission (BEPA Bureau of European Policy Analysis).  She served on the ERC Scientific Council from 2012-2018 and on the RISE Expert Group advising the commissioner for Research.  She is a member of VARIO, the expert group advising the Flemish minister for Innovation. She is currently a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of the journal Science and a co-PI on the Science of Science Funding Initiative at NBER.

    With her research concentrated in the fields of industrial organisation, international economics and strategy, innovation and science, she has authored numerous well cited publications in leading international journals.  Specific recent topics include novelty in technology development,  international technology transfers through MNEs, global innovation value chains, young innovative companies, innovation for climate change,  industry science links and their impact on firm’s innovative productivity, evaluation of research & innovation policy,  explaining scientific productivity,  researchers’ international mobility,  novel scientific research.

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

Theme
Macroeconomic policy and governance Digital economy, labour markets, skills and health
Keyword
innovation industrial policy european parliament EU-UK relations
Language
English

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