The Brussels Effect and its diminishing marginal returns
Has Europe picked all its low-hanging regulatory fruit?
What the Heitor Report gets right (and wrong) about EU science policy
Europe should develop a small, flexible, experimental programme to identify, recruit, and exploit the potential of its top scientists.
Believe the hype: how signals from the EU can will progress into reality
Bubbles can speed up the rate of technological progress and breakthroughs. We might be in the nascent stages of some technological bubbles in the EU. Whether they succeed could depend on the signals EU policymakers send to would-be innovators and investors.
Is Strategic Autonomy now the only game in town?
A few preliminary thoughts on Trump’s victory yesterday, how it will impact the EU’s Strategic Autonomy agenda, and what it the latter about the EU as a Complex System.
Optimism and progress: what can the centre learn from the fringes?
Part three of three on why (and how) the Brussels Bubble must re-discover its sense of optimism
The economic case for a more optimistic Brussels Bubble
Part two of three on why (and how) the Brussels Bubble must re-discover its sense of optimism
Is the Brussels Bubble becoming less optimistic?
Part one of three on why (and how) the Brussels Bubble must re-discover its sense of optimism
Your Minimum Viable Strategy
On the benefits of rolling strategies out quickly, then iterating