Innovation is the product of intentional human endeavor. Countries seeking world-leading innovative enterprises and industries need to implement thoughtful and effective national innovation systems, and supporting policy instruments, to maximize their innovation potential. Reports here review the innovation systems/policies of GTIPA-member nations.
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Around 300 million indigenous peoples (IPs) have been identified across 70 co
The Austrian Economic Center, in cooperation with the British Conservation Alliance and more than 15 other prominent pro-market organizations from around the world, is launching the book Green Market Revolution: How Market Environmentalism Can Protect Nature and Save the Planet. In it, AEC puts forward an alternative vision on how environmental protection and the fight against global warming can work, showing how a system based on free markets, innovation, property rights, and local democracy is far more effective at tackling environmental problems than top-down, one-size-fits-all regulatory approaches. Indeed, protecting the environment should be in the hands of entrepreneurs, innovators, creative minds, philanthropists, and decentralized communities. The book entails a foreword by Daniel Hannan and chapters by scholars from organizations such as the Cato Institute, Reason Foundation, PERC, the Centre for Policy Studies, Adam Smith Institute, and the American Conservation Coalition. It was co-edited by our Research and Outreach Coordinator, Kai Weiss, who also contributed four chapters himself. Our Research Fellow Martin Gundinger has written a chapter, too, debating the efficacy of a carbon tax.
The Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis analyzed how Finland, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK use public intervention to facilitate, in the main, the strategic work of small and medium-sized companies in the provision of skills and competence development.
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The transportation sector faces special challenges in the process of decarbonisation, since the need for mobility – both for people and goods – is rapidly increasing around the world, especially in the emerging economies. Because of road traffic’s key position in mobility, the future CO2 regulation of cars and trucks will play a substantial role in climate policy.
On 23 June, the European Commission published the Innovation Scoreboard for 2020, the ranking of EU countries’ research and innovation performance. Results are broadly in line with those of previous years, with the Union as a whole strengthening its innovation capacity compared to the beginning of the decade, but continuing to lose positions to the major global competitors.
The Eastern European countries (especially the Baltic countries) have accelerated their growth and begun to reduce the internal European R&I divide. In contrast, Italy – although showing a positive trend during the decade – has confirmed its structural weaknesses in research and innovation, a factor that has been widely known for years. This is all further material for reflection, both at national and European levels, in view of the definition of the Recovery Plan proposed by the Commission at the end of May.
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COVID-19 has prompted calls for reshoring of medical goods, including strict “Buy American” prescriptions. While reshoring is important, “Buy American” fails to recognize the value of the global supply chain and avoids addressing the real problem, China.