Innovation

Efficiency and distribution in the European Union’s digital deregulation push

A new framework shows how EU digital reforms must balance efficiency with transparent recognition of distributive consequences

Mario Mariniello

What can Europe learn from China’s critical-tech innovation push?

China’s rise in frontier technologies narrows its gap with the US as Europe struggles with slow replication and fragmented research

Alicia García-Herrero and Michal Krystyanczuk

What are governments buying?

How does the European Union manage public-sector procurement, and is there room for environmental goals?

Rebecca Christie, Karolis Granickas, Francesco Nicoli and Marie-Sophie Lappe

The Nobel Prize committee’s message for European innovation

The award of the Nobel Prize to economists working on creative destruction contains a lesson that policymakers should be ready to let some firms go

Fiona M. Scott Morton

The European Union is still caught in an AI copyright bind

Tweaks to EU copyright requirements in the AI Act Code of Practice will maintain the AI growth momentum, for now – but will also create new challenges

Bertin Martens

How is Europe's green energy transition going?

Ben McWilliams

No green growth without innovation

This Policy Brief is a reissue of a Policy Brief published by Bruegel in November 2009

Philippe Aghion, David Hémous and Reinhilde Veugelers

Relaunching Europe's space economy

This Blueprint analyses the scope for the European Union to become a leader on innovation, sustainability, resilience and security in the space sector

Reinhilde Veugelers, Kamil Sekut and Francesco Nicoli

What Europe must learn from China’s ascent in critical technologies

Alicia García-Herrero

How do China, the US, and the EU fare in critical technologies?

Comparing the evolution of frontier innovation in quantum computing, semiconductors and artificial intelligence in the three economies

Claudio Feijóo, Alicia García-Herrero and Yuyun Zhan

Which companies are ahead in frontier innovation on critical technologies? Comparing China, the European Union and the United States

In this paper, we study who is engaging in frontier innovation in AI, semiconductors and quantum computing in China, the US and the EU

Alicia García-Herrero, Michal Krystyanczuk and Robin Schindowski

Radical novelties in critical technologies and spillovers: how do China, the US and the EU fare?

In this paper we analyse the evolution of frontier innovation in quantum computing, semiconductors and artificial intelligence in China, US and EU

Alicia García-Herrero, Michal Krystyanczuk and Robin Schindowski

How much research talent could Europe grab from the US?

Up to a fifth of researchers in top US universities have previously studied in Europe; they might be persuaded to return

Mario Mariniello and Nina Ruer