Industrial and Competitiveness Policy
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Stealing Thunder: Cloud, IoT and 5G will Change the Strategic Paradigm for Protecting European Commercial Interests. Will Cyber Espionage be Allowed to Hold Europe Back in the Global Race for Industrial Competitiveness?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and Security55 billion euros lost annually to cyber espionage. 289,000 jobs at risk. No workable solutions. 26,000,000,000 new devices soon to go...
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Unintended and Unattended Consequences: The Opportunity Costs of Reducing Exclusivity Rights for Intellectual Property
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalBy: Matthias BauerThe European Commission is reviewing the use of supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), a patent term extension motivated by the increasing...
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Standard Essential Patents and the Quest for Faster Diffusion of Technology
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityStandard-essential patents (SEPs) have been critical to the ICT revolution. SEPs have allowed for the fast rates of innovation diffusion that the...
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The Compounding Effect of Tariffs on Medicines: Estimating the Real Cost of Emerging Markets’ Protectionism
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Matthias BauerEven low import tariff rates have a significant compounding effect on the final retail price of medicines, which in turn impacts on affordability....
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The Success of K-pop. How Big and Why So Fast?
Over the past decade, a specific form of Korean popular music—K-pop—has enjoyed huge success around the world. Previous explanations have mostly...
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The Real Impact of Subsidies on the Film Industry (1970s–Present): Lessons from France and Korea
A publication in a academic journal, Pacific Affairs by Patrick Messerlin and Jimmyn Parc in March...
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Manufacturing Discontent: The Rise to Power of Anti-TTIP Groups
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Matthias BauerOld beliefs, new symbols, new faces. In 2013, a small group of German green and left- wing activists, professional campaign NGOs and...
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Why Concluding CETA is so Important for the EU
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityPassions have been running high this week as the EU failed to get an agreement about signing off its trade deal with Canada, what is called CETA. As...
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Addressing the Regulatory Divergences in the Medical Devices Sector
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North AmericaTags: medical technologyMedical devices are not just simple commodities. They are the result of decades of research and development and scientific advancement, and...
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The Cost of Non-Schengen for the Single Market
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms Project Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Hanna DeringerA suspension of the Schengen Agreement would damage the European economy, in particular by undermining the European single market. And it would not...
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Competition, Growth and Regulatory Heterogeneity in Europe’s Digital Economy
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyFar too many policymakers in Europe have a confused vision about the policy conditions required for Europe to grow its digital economy. Their habits...
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Who Reforms for Higher Productivity?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalWith weak European growth performance over a longer period of time, it is time to push reforms raising the rate of productivity growth. The EU’s...