'Charting a European path to competitiveness' reviews Europe’s ongoing efforts to address its twin challenges: enhancing economic competitiveness and securing technological sovereignty. The publication contains three papers which offer a detailed analysis...
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'Charting a European path to competitiveness' reviews Europe’s ongoing efforts to address its twin challenges: enhancing economic competitiveness and securing technological sovereignty. The publication contains three papers which offer a detailed analysis of the progress made, the persistent obstacles encountered, and the policy pathways required to achieve these closely interconnected objectives.
The first paper delves into Europe’s long-standing difficulty in converting its innovative potential into market success, a shortfall that has left the continent overly dependent on foreign technologies. Although competitiveness and sovereignty can mutually reinforce each other in the long term, the paper highlights immediate tensions: on one hand, embracing foreign technology is essential for maintaining productivity and economic growth; on the other, it risks deepening Europe’s strategic dependencies and undermining its autonomy.
The second paper identifies Europe’s significant lag i
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