Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies
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The DMA Is Not Fixing Competition, It’s Redesigning It
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) may be a young regulation but, curiously, is already showing signs of being misaligned with actual market realities. As...
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Getting Back to the Core “Draghi” Problem: Improving Europe’s Innovation and Technology Performance
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalWhen 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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The Economics of Copyright and Data Access in European AI Development
By: Oscar GuineaThis ECIPE Insight is based on a forthcoming ECIPE publication on Copyright and AI. Three developments in early 2026 have brought the relationship...
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Rethinking European Technological Sovereignty: From Regulatory Control to Capability Building
By: Dyuti PandyaA combination of developments and factors are leading several European leaders to favour new and old-new industrial policies. Policymakers have...
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Reviewing the Digital Markets Act: Inspirations from Japan
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe European Commission is in the process of reviewing the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the flagship ex-ante competition regulation introduced a few...
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Europe’s Cloud Debate Is Looking the Wrong Way: It’s Not Concentration – It’s Lock-In
Some policymakers argue that Europe should "correct" cloud market concentration. The intuition is straightforward: more providers should mean less...
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Determinants of 5G Deployment: How Scale, Regulations, and Market Structure (but Not Restrictions) Matter
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging TechnologiesWhat factors determine the adoption and investments into new digital technologies? In the past, the concept of a digital divide assumed that there...
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Band-Aids on Bureaucracy: Why GDPR Reform Isn’t Enough
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy South Asia and OceaniaSeven may be a divine number, but even sacred things deserve scrutiny. It took the EU seven years to begin rethinking its regulatory holy grail: the...
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Rediscovering Europe’s Enlightenment Spirit in the Age of Quantum Technology
The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt and Joel Mokyr for their contribution to a simple but hard to answer...
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Spain, at Your Service
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalBy: Oscar GuineaThis blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 5th of October 2025. The original article can be found here. In her latest State...
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Should the EU Pause its AI Act? Why not Cancel it and Present a Better Regulation?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Fredrik ErixonIn mid-September, the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung had a remarkable interview with Gabriele Mazzini, a scholar at the MIT Media Lab, about...
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From Digital Taxation to CORE: Europe’s Obsession with Turnover Taxes
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyEurope's flirtation with digital services taxes (DSTs) appears to be cooling. In July 2025, the European Commission dropped its proposed digital levy...