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Unleash Entrepreneurial Discovery for Development of Real Digital Economy
By Meelis Kitsing, a lecturer at the Estonian Business School, Director of the Centre for Free Economic Thought The European Union has adopted smart specialization strategy in its innovation...
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Manufacturing the Future: Industry 4.0
A new wave of technological changes is reshaping the manufacturing sector in its entirety. Autonomous robotics, additive manufacturing, cloud computing and sensor technology are only few of the new...
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The Case for a European Data Policy
By Richard Robert, Executive Director, ParisTech Review The digital single market is a fact. Neither a project, nor an ambition, just a fact. Only thing is, it is in no way limited to European...
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Are Europeans Ready to Embrace the Digital Society?
By Alastair Reed, Renaud Thillaye, Policy Network The European Commission has just set out bold ambitions for a digital single market but achieving the buy-in of member states for pan-European...
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Corporation Tax and the Digital Single Market
By Diego Zuluaga, Institute of Economic Affairs & EPICENTER Tax policy has featured prominently in discussions of the EU’s digital economy for some time. Unfortunately, much of the debate...
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Net Freedom Instead of Net Neutrality For a Successful Digital Market
By Cécile Philippe, Director, Institut économique Molinari The Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy for Europe includes several initiatives to be delivered by the end of 2016. Among them, an...
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Europe and the Digital Economy: How can it Expand Faster?
Europe, it is said, is a digital laggard. In some ways, it is obvious. Access to superfast mobile or broadband access, for instance, is poor in many parts of Europe, including regions that consider...
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What is the Future of UK Trade if the Referendum Results in an Exit from the EU?
The formulation of the title makes it clear that we are talking of economics - the world of trade and commerce - rather than geopolitics - foreign and security policy. This also makes sense since it...
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EU Reform and the European Parliament Elections
There is a confusing debate going on about how to interpret last week’s European elections. A fairly considerable body of opinion suggests that the rise of the populists, extremists and protest...
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Taxis and Taxes: More “Threats” to the European Way of Life? (part II)
A couple of days before Brussels shut down for winter holidays, I was reached by an email that my op-ed on internet taxation in France and Italy is one of the most popular articles on European...