Innovation

The new European research agenda

High growth firms and job creation in Europe

While all forms of entrepreneurship play a critical role in the economy, a growing body of evidence has shown that it is the high-growth firms that ar

Karen Wilson and Diogo Machado

Brainless recovery - brain drain in the aftermath of the crisis

Throughout the 2000s, European countries have been broadly successful at attracting large numbers of highly-skilled individuals. The euro area crisis

Alessio Terzi

Some tools for lifting the patent data treasure

Bruegel contributes to the stream of research on PATSTAT by providing two algorithms that try to minimize the amount of manual work tha

Georg Zachmann

The policy dilemma of the unitary patent

This paper provides new evidence about the budgetary consequences – for patent offices – of the coexistence of the forthcoming Unitary Patent (UP) wit

Bruno van Pottelsberghe

Uber Economics: There is no such thing as bad publicity

The following graph shows the individual index of Google searches for "Uber" and the index of searches for "Taxi", both in Ge

Diogo Machado

Crowdfunding: Broadening Europe’s capital markets

The rising financing gap for SMEs as well as high growth firms is a serious concern for Europe battered by financial fragility. These firms, particula

Karen Wilson

Fact of the week: Not one European city in the top 10 for tech talent

Two recent LinkedIn analyses show some interesting facts about work-related migration in the 21st century and how this reshapes the world’s economic e

Silvia Merler

The economics of Uber

Uber, the innovative ridesharing service, has recently generated a lot of anger from the taxi industry because it enabled market entry for many privat

Sergiy Golovin

A flexible, scaleable approach to the international patent 'name game'

The inventors in PATSTAT are often duplicates: the same person or company may be split into multiple entries in PATSTAT, each associated to different

Georg Zachmann

Improving the role of equity crowdfunding in Europe's capital markets

Crowdfunding is a growing phenomenon that encompasses several different models of financing for business or other ventures. We assess the potential ro

Karen Wilson