Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies
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Cloud Sovereignty and the Single Market: A Better Understanding of Government Procurement and National Cloud Technology Preferences
Europe is right to pursue better digital sovereignty, but the ambition is marked by a conceptual ambiguity. “Sovereignty” is often used to...
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The Real-World Economic Impact of the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA): What CADA Could Mean for Cloud Prices, Migration, Digitalisation and Europe’s Technology Supply Chain
By: Matthias BauerThe Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) would create a common EU framework for deciding when public authorities, and potentially private...
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The 6G Wake-up Call for Europe: Reforms Urgently Needed to Sustain Europe’s Telecommunications Leadership
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe transition from 5G to 6G in telecommunications networks will be a game changer for global digital technology. 6G will create a new opportunity...
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Fairness and Politics of Digital Advertising
The Digital Fairness Act (DFA) emerges from a broader policy trajectory following the European Commission’s Digital Fairness Fitness Check and...
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The Copyright Trap
The current debate on EU copyright law and AI training must move beyond the creative sector to include the wider European economy. While the rights...
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Europe’s Digital Markets Act Under Review: Ways to Make it More Pragmatic, Proportional, and Predictable
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) marked a major shift in EU competition and regulatory policy, moving from an effects-based and ex-post approach to a...
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Consumer Protection in the Age of AI: Transposing the New EU Product Liability Directive in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland
Digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming Europe’s economy. The legal frameworks designed to govern them are catching...
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Cloud Resilience and Security: Why Exit, Portability, and Lifecycle Design Matter
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe future of computing points to cloud services remaining deeply embedded across sectors. As cloud technologies converge with edge networks and...
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More Than Just Chips: What Europe Can Learn from Taiwan’s Industrial Strategy
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyTaiwan is widely regarded as the global epicentre of semiconductor manufacturing. The island accounts for well over half of all global chip foundry...
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Quantum Clusters: Ranking the World’s Deep-Tech Epicentres
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: quantum technologiesThe ECIPE Quantum Project has so far laid the groundwork for understanding the global quantum landscape. It introduced the fundamentals of quantum...
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Global Digital Trade Takes Off: Is EU Digital Policy Keeping Pace?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyGlobal digital trade is increasingly shifting toward faster-growing regions outside Europe, driving greater external demand for the EU’s digitally...
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The Trade Effects of AI Provisions in PTAs: Does Non-Binding Matter?
This paper examines whether non-binding (“soft”) AI-related provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) move trade and how their effects...