I-Com

I-Com is an Italian think tank based in Rome and Brussels, founded in 2005 by a group of scholars and managers with the aim to promote policy related debates and, moreover, to analyse competitive and innovative topics. In 2016, I-Com has opened its Brussels office to further develop its activities on a European stage and to solicit the positioning of relevant stakeholders on issues crucial for the competitiveness of the EU and Italian economy. The institute focuses its research on three main areas: Digital, Energy and Healthcare, with a special focus on how to strengthen innovation in the economy.

February 18, 2020

Innovative Europe: The Way Forward. Taking Stock and Thinking Ahead.

This blueprint aims to inform European institutions on the state of innovation in three sectors (Digital, Healthcare, and Energy & Mobility).

November 1, 2019

The New Europe in the Global Digital Era

The Internet and digital technologies are transforming our world. The European Commission has identified that an efficiently functioning Digital Single Market could contribute €415 bln per year to our economy and create hundreds of thousands of new jobs Starting from an analysis on the Junker Commission’s Digital Singe Market Strategy, the I-Com Study assesses of the steps undertaken by the EU during the last institutional cycle, particularly focusing on the following issues: Digital Networks and 5G, Data-driven Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Consumers and Cybersecurity.

December 1, 2018

EU-AFRICA. Lightening up the partnership

The general picture emerging from a cross-analysis of the facts and data presented in the report confirms once more the marked contradictions characterising the development paths of the African continent and its endeavouring to meet the challenges to ensure a balanced wellbeing for its people and for the whole planet. Population growth is one of the main challenges for the African continent’s future.

October 1, 2018

Smart consumers for a smarter Europe. Principles for an updated protection and what empowerment from digital tools

Digitalization is revolutionizing business models and the relationship between authorities and citizens and between enterprises and consumers creating new opportunities, but also raising some critical issues.

October 1, 2018

Smart Consumers for a Smarter Europe

June 1, 2018

Data-driven innovation & artificial intelligence. Which strategy for europe?

Chapter 1 provides an overview of the current state of data-driven innovation (DDI) across Europe. DDI forms a key pillar in the 21st century sources of growth. According to the OECD, in 2017, the global data traffic per month reached 120 exabytes (billion gigabytes), about 70 times the traffic existing in 2005.

April 1, 2018

New Mobility Matching the data revolution and the sustainability challenge

During the next decades the mobility sector will go through some dramatic changes because of several factors such as the growing number of people moving to (and within) urban areas, the shift toward an even more individual and personalized mobility and the growth of tourism flows. The ecological and environmental problems are also changing people’s behavior due to more awareness. One of the positive externalities is probably an increased willingness to the sharing of resources and goods.

April 1, 2018

MAKING EUROPE SAFER. Data, networks and cloud: drivers of cybersecurity in Europe?

Digitization is revolutionizing our society, transforming human existence, business models and relations between authorities and citizens. At the European level, data show that citizens across different EU Member States and companies not only have a different level of computer knowledge and, more generally, a different awareness of the advent of the digital age, but also make use of digital services with different intensity and approaches.

November 1, 2017

Digital Energy: Infrastructures, Enabling Technologies, and The Role of the Consumer

This iCom study examines how information and communications technologies will prove pivotal to the future of energy innovation.

September 1, 2017

Thinking the Future of European Industry

This study shows that digitalisation and Industry 4.0 are key enabling technologies for the future of the European economy

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