Reinhilde Veugelers
Reinhilde Veugelers is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. She specialises in industrial organisation, innovation and science.
She has worked on novelty in technology development, international technology transfers through multinational enterprises, global innovation value chains, young innovative companies, innovation for climate change, industry-science links and their impact on firms’ innovative productivity, evaluation of research and innovation policy, explaining scientific productivity, researchers’ international mobility and novel scientific research.
She speaks English, Dutch and French.
Reinhilde is also a Professor at KU Leuven at the Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She is a CEPR Research Fellow and a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences, the Academia Europeana, the Board of Reviewing Editors of the journal Science and a co-PI on the Science of Science Funding Initiative at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). From 2004-2008, she was on academic leave as advisor at the European Commission (Bureau of European Policy Analysis). She was on the European Research Council's (ERC) Scientific Council from 2012-2018 and on the Real-time earthquake risk reduction for a resilient Europe (RISE) Expert Group, advising the commissioner for research. She holds a PhD in Economics from KU Leuven.
Websites:
https://feb.kuleuven.be/reinhilde.veugelers
https://bruegel.org/author/reinhilde-veugelers/
Disclosure of interests
Featured work
A new founding regime for Europe
Regime 0: Europe-wide incorporation for startups to kickstart innovative growth
Europe’s 2025 identity crisis: the year in review
The European Union’s quest for innovation, competitiveness, self defence and economic security
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
All work
Opinion piece
08 January 2026
Newsletter
15 December 2025
Podcast
15 December 2025
Europe’s 2025 identity crisis: the year in review
The European Union’s quest for innovation, competitiveness, self defence and economic security
Policy Brief
10 December 2025
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
Event
10 December 2025
Regime0: Kickstarting growth with an EU wide startup incorporation regime
How to attract entrepreneurs to invest in Europe
Event
09 October 2025
The role of science and innovation in sustainable growth
We discussed the OECD's recent publication Measuring science and Innovation to sustainable growth
Podcast
10 September 2025
The Sound of Economics Live: The State of the European Union 2025
A special live episode of The Sound of Economics podcast on the State of the Union address
Event
10 September 2025
The Sound of Economics Live: The State of the European Union
A special live episode of The Sound of Economics podcast on the State of the Union address
Policy Brief
20 August 2025
No green growth without innovation
This Policy Brief is a reissue of a Policy Brief published by Bruegel in November 2009
Event
30 October 2025
Strategic transformation for Europe's growth: investing in resilience, innovation and competitiveness
Bruegel’s 20th anniversary event in Athens, jointly organised with the Ministry of Economy and Finance