Innovation

Talent grab: can the EU attract US scientists and innovators?

Ways for Europe to seize the moment and win over top-tier researchers

Rebecca Christie, Daniel Gros, Mario Mariniello and Reinhilde Veugelers

‘Project Einstein’: research excellence for Europe and the world

The European Union has the money to attract researchers under threat in the US and should coordinate a scheme to deploy it

Heather Grabbe and Daniel Gros

Do funding agencies select and enable novel research: evidence from ERC

Reinhilde Veugelers, Jian Wang and Paula Stephan

A planned code of practice would reinforce the EU’s artificial intelligence copyright problem

The European Union is continuing to unnecessarily restrict access to copyright-protected content for AI model training

Bertin Martens

How DeepSeek has changed artificial intelligence and what it means for Europe

This Policy Brief analyses innovations in AI models over the past half year and examines the economic implications for AI companies and policymakers

Bertin Martens

Pitfalls to avoid as the EU ramps up defence investment

European Union security requires both investment in defence and decisive steps in innovation and research

Philippe Aghion, Marco Buti, Giancarlo Corsetti, Marcello Messori and André Sapir

Will China’s economy follow the same path as Japan’s?

Since the 2021 bursting of its real-estate bubble, worries have grown that China's future economic trajectory will mirror that of Japan in the 1990s

Alicia García-Herrero and Jianwei Xu

Is China headed for its own ‘lost decade’?

Comparing China and Japan’s economic slowdowns

Alicia García-Herrero, Jianwei Xu and Yuyun Zhan

Satellites and Space Races: The role of Europe in the space economy

Stakeholders, demands, and funding of Europe’s space sector

Rebecca Christie, Hermann Ludwig Moeller and Reinhilde Veugelers

The geopolitics of artificial intelligence after DeepSeek

DeepSeek’s emergence points to a split into competing US and Chinese AI worlds, making for a tough choice for Europe

Alicia García-Herrero and Michal Krystyanczuk

Updated assessment: Memo to the commissioner responsible for defence

Guntram B. Wolff

Updated assessment: Memo to the commissioner responsible for trade

Ignacio García Bercero, Petros C. Mavroidis and André Sapir

Beyond Citations: Measuring Novel Scientific Ideas and their Impact in Publication Text

Sam Arts, Nicola Melluso and Reinhilde Veugelers

The EU vs. Big Tech: Regulating for innovation and sovereignty

How should the EU regulate Big Tech and Artificial Intelligence?

Rebecca Christie, Aura Salla and Fiona M. Scott Morton