Industrial strategies for Europe’s green transition
Industrial policies are not necessarily incompatible with competition and should be designed to not slow down structural change and business dynamics.
In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Rebecca Christie invites Chiara Criscuolo and Reinhilde Veugelers. The speakers argue that the current pace of innovation is too slow to face the challenge of climate change and that a range of barriers and market failures remain at the root of the problem. To resolve these, a mission-oriented industrial strategy for the green transition is needed.
Relevant publication:
- Industrial strategies for Europe’s green transition, Chapter by Chiara Criscuolo, Antoine Dechezlepretre and Guy Lalanne, Bruegel Blueprint (Sparking Europe’s new industrial revolution: A policy for net zero, growth and resilience), July 2023
- Did COVID-19 accelerate the green transition? OECD paper, June 2023
- Industrial policy and strategies, OECD project
- Quantifying industrial strategies, OECD project
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