The US-China tech innovation race is challenging the laissez-faire economic model. State interventionism, techno-nationalism, and US tech funding initiatives are increasing. This paper outlines the implications for markets, academia, research organizations, and governments of the US-China competition to achieve innovation advantage.

The fact-finding survey is the result of two years of work, which began on 27 September 2018 on new technologies in telecommunications, 5G, and Big Data created by the IX Transport and Telecommunications Commission of the Chamber. It is a full-bodied document, developed in 87 pages and divided into 16 thematic areas related to the new generation network and Big Data in which, through fifty hearings, the representatives of the institutions and competent Authorities, experts in the field took part, as well as television and telephone operators, representatives of trade union organizations and consumer and environmentalist associations and actors from the world of the Internet, universities and research institutes.

Before Corona caught everyone's attention, there were probably no political issues that caused as much stir as environmental protection and the fight against global warming. Now that the worst seems to be over, these issues are coming back. Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future have been protesting for the saving of the planet for well over a year. In numerous European countries, Green parties have recently grown considerably - in Germany they have even been in the lead at times. In the United States, the Democratic Party has seen socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal proposal as a promising step in many areas . And in Brussels, Ursula from the Leyens European Commission is working on the introduction of her ownEuropean Green Deal.