Digital economy

Promoting STEM skills: a brief assessment of French individual learning accounts

French ILA successfully promotes basic digital skills but falls short of fostering more advanced capabilities.

Are new EU data market regulations coherent and efficient?

Technical restrictions on access to and re-use of data may result in failures in data markets and data-driven services markets.

New technologies in the workplace: a round-up of project research

The slow but steady uptake of artificial intelligence in Europe impacts the quantity, quality and nature of jobs as well as worker wellbeing.

Skills or a degree? The rise of skills-based hiring for AI and green jobs

We explore whether employers have started focusing on individual skills rather than on formal qualifications in their recruiting.

The value of skill complementarity, especially in artificial intelligence

Understanding skill complementarity can help workers and employers keep up in the increasingly high-tech world of work

Artificial intelligence and energy consumption

It is difficult to evaluate whether the green transition will compensate for AI energy consumption.

The competitive relationship between cloud computing and generative AI

Merger control and antitrust laws can address some of the competition risks arising from the relationship between generative AI and cloud computing.

What do the antitrust cases against Amazon reveal about contestability in the EU and the US?

Improving the contestability of e-commerce in two jurisdictions: the Amazon case

The conduct described in the US complaints against Amazon harms competition between online stores and among the merchants who sell via them.

The turmoil at OpenAI reveals underlying structural tensions in the AI industry

The competitive nature of the industry means highly skilled employees present the ultimate resource scarcity for AI development.

Compliance principles for the Digital Markets Act

This paper proposes an original set of five compliance principles derived from the DMA list of obligations.

Digital Market Act designations: the interoperability of Google Android

The European Commission has taken an intelligent first step in enabling competition to Google Android and Google Play Services

‘Home-grown’ innovation has costs as well as benefits

Europe can improve its innovation systems, but should not try to copy the US approach