Innovation

Powering Europe's digital future: towards sustainable data centres

Georg Zachmann

The World’s Two Largest Economies Should Slow Their Investment Race

Marco Buti and Moreno Bertoldi

A new founding regime for Europe

Fiona M. Scott Morton and Reinhilde Veugelers

The Nexperia crisis: a wake-up call for Europe’s approach to Chinese investment

Alicia García-Herrero

What turned 2025 into a year of better averages and bigger challenges?

Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Europe has a solid basis for battery and electric vehicle manufacturing growth

Europe is successfully building up battery and EV manufacturing capacity, though mainly thanks to foreign investment

Marie Jugé, Ugnė Keliauskaitė, Ben McWilliams and Simone Tagliapietra

Regime 0: Europe-wide incorporation for startups to kickstart innovative growth

Fiona M. Scott Morton and Reinhilde Veugelers

EU data processing consent reform must account for market incentives

Proposed streamlining of EU rules on consent for processing of personal data should account for how digital-market incentives shape implementation

Paul Richter and Tillman Schenk

Regime 0: Europe-wide incorporation for startups to kickstart innovative growth

An optional EU regime is proposed to lower barriers for high-growth startups via swift incorporation, simple governance and cross-border access

Fiona M. Scott Morton and Reinhilde Veugelers

The European Union needs more than the digital omnibus to make digital services competitive

European Commission plans to streamline digital rules introduce new inconsistences and fall far short of transformative reform

Bertin Martens

China's Critical Technology Surge: A Contested Ascent

Alicia García-Herrero

How does China’s industrial policy work?

Alicia García-Herrero

Economic principles for European rearmament

Alain Quinet, Xavier Jaravel, Moritz Schularick and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Not like the others: Frontier scientists for inventive performance

Thomas Schaper, Sam Arts and Reinhilde Veugelers