Insights (Filter: innovation)
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Steering into Price Control: Why the CMA’s App-Store Proposals Go beyond What is Necessary
There is a conceptual problem right at the heart of the consultations on proposed steering conduct requirements (CRs) for Apple and Google by the...
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Summer Reading List 2026
By: Dyuti PandyaThe rising temperatures may have told us that summer arrived some time ago, but the holiday season is now just around the corner – bringing with it...
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Getting Back to the Core “Draghi” Problem: Improving Europe’s Innovation and Technology Performance
When Mario Draghi published his report on the Future of European Competitiveness in September 2024, one observation stood out above all others:...
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Why It’s Time to Mind Europe’s Services Gap
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, President Trump told Europe it was “not heading in the right direction”. The line was...
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Europe’s Innovation Gap: Five Charts and Five Takeaways for an Evidence-Based Debate
By: Andrea DugoRivers of ink have been spilled in recent years on Europe’s stagnating innovation performance and declining competitiveness. The Draghi report is...
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Let Others Invent, Let Others Defend Us!
By: Oscar GuineaThis blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 16th of March 2025. The original article can be found here. In an era of...
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Sweden vs Switzerland: A Heavyweight Champions Fight on Innovation
By: Andrea DugoMuch like with other headline-making international rankings, the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has recently drawn media...
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Europe vs United States – Boosting Competition in Space and the Skies
By: Andrea DugoWe reach for historical images to make sense of our current times. Now that there is increasing competition between firms in the aerospace industry,...
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What Do We Know and What Don’t We Know About the Consequences of the Revised Product Liability Directive?
By: Fredrik ErixonThe new Product Liability Directive, proposed by the European Commission in 2022, is now on its final stretch: it’s now in the trialogue and a...
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Competitive and Innovative: The Winning Europe That We Need
This piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, a journalist and communicator in financing for development. The competitiveness of a...
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The Relevance of Intellectual Property for Pharmaceutical Innovation
By: Guest AuthorBy Mr Maarten Meulenbelt, Sidley Austin LLP* In the pharmaceutical industry, the role of Intellectual Property (IP) as an incentive for product...
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Innovation, International Competitiveness and the Future of European Union Institutions
By: Matthias BauerRecently, I attended a scenario workshop on “The Future of the EU”. The workshop was organised by one of Germany’s largest political...