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Episode 52: Industrial Policy and the Entrepreneurial State – Facts and Fiction with Karl Wennberg
In the past decades, there has been a flurry of initiatives by governments to support strategic technologies and innovation. For some, the industrial history of the West is full of examples of...
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ECIPE Summer Book List
We asked ECIPE experts to help compile a list of books to read over the summer. The goal was to recommend literature that helps readers make sense of the troubled times we are living in right now,...
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Episode 31: How Innovation Works with Matt Ridley
Fredrik Erixon talks to Matt Ridley - a journalist, thinker, author and businessman - about his new book, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom. In their conversation, Matt and...
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The Chinese Innovation Conundrum
Huawei’s prominent role in 5G infrastructure could suggest that China is now ready to be a driving force on digital innovation. In addition, the country experienced an unprecedented surge of patent...
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Regulating Artificial Intelligence: Should there be innovation without permission?
Brian Williamson, a Partner at consultancy Communications Chambers. The views in this blog are his own. The European Commission, along with others, is considering the role of ethics in...
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The European Commission’s pharmaceutical innovation incentives review is at risk of serious overreach
Philip Stevens is executive director of Geneva Network, a UK-based research organisation working on international innovation and trade policy. Over the summer, the European Commission (EC)...
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Q&A with Fredrik Erixon and Björn Weigel, authors of The Innovation Illusion – How so Little is Created by so Many Working so Hard (Yale University Press)
Question: Why is there an innovation illusion? Answer: People are almost daily fed with horror stories about how robots, artificial intelligence, or smart machines are going to destroy jobs and make...
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A Race Against Time: New Data Protection Rules in the Internet Era
It was about time. Pre-internet rules on data protection were not fit for our new interconnected reality. The core institutions of the European Union have finally set in stone an agreement which...
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Innovation for Greater Economic Prosperity of Belarus?
Which developmental path is best suited for Belarus if it wants to achieve greater and more sustainable economic prosperity? This was the question at the heart of an international conference held at...
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Why Italy Fails and Swedish Economists are Smug
Our friends at Bruegel posted a nice piece called "Why does Italy not grow?" which I missed when it was first published (until a chronically sleep-deprived friend posted it on her Facebook). The...