This report examines Mexico’s’ continuing transition and the issues and opportunities that it presents for Bay Area companies. It particularly does this through the lens of cities and regions that cluster assets that Bay Area/Silicon Valley companies look for: infrastructure, talent, universities, R&D, and entrepreneurs.

The Covid-19 pandemic has illustrated the importance of international trade for access to all kinds of medical supplies, with many countries suffering from shortages of essential medical goods as a result of various government-imposed trade barriers. The negative impact of these new restrictions is now the subject of high-level political attention. Both within the policy response to Covid-19 and more broadly, the substantial adverse impacts of government-imposed import tariffs on global access to medicines and medical goods is still largely unaddressed.

The implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) will pass through the new control room set up by the Draghi Government with the Simplifications Decree. Understanding how it works is necessary to understand what will be the method used by the government to determine the lines of industrial and digital development of Italy in the coming years. Starting from a certainty: the premier and his closest men will have a decisive weight in all the decisions that are increasingly moving away from the hands of the parties.

Studies have positioned Chile as a potential primary producer and exporter of green hydrogen, with the Ministry of Energy promoting a National Green Hydrogen Strategy to develop this market on a large scale in the coming years. However, despite the enormous advantages that the development of this market would bring to Chile, there are also significant challenges in different elements of the process that can hinder, or even nullify these advantages.