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.
German states perform outstandingly in terms of innovation competitiveness, but current challenges call for action to maintain the good performance.
The Institute for Competitiveness (I-Com) has presented the December 2022 report entitled “Fast track to EU Strategic Autonomy. Speed check for digital, green and health”, which focuses on how technological competition, industrial expertise and supply chains – from raw materials to final goods – interact, affecting European strategic autonomy in the three key areas of digital, health and energy.
GTIPA members I-Com the Institute for Competitiveness (Italy) and IOBE the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (Greece) in cooperation with other think-tanks carried out a joint paper on the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA). The paper touches upon the economic impact of the media industry, the recent trends in media freedom and pluralism, the geopolitics of technology and its nexus with media freedom and pluralism, and media regulation in Europe with a view from Southern Europe.
Innovation ecosystems are increasingly complex and diverse, but there are common markers of core strength. In this report, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, the German Economic Institute, the Institute for Competitiveness, and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute benchmark 96 states and provinces across Germany, Italy, the United States, and Canada.
To implement the climate targets, the expansion of renewable energies in Germany needs to be tripled and the share of climate-neutral technologies in consumption sectors such as industry, transport and buildings must also grow more strongly in the future than it has in the past.
The GTIPA recognizes the role of clean energy and sustainability innovations in producing solutions to some of the most challenging effects of climate change. This report provides GTIPA members’ perspectives on some of the most exciting, innovative clean energy technologies in their countries. The included briefs demonstrate how governments and private entities are fostering transformative innovations in both what is typically thought of as part of the clean energy sector—hydro, wind, solar, and nuclear power—and in seemingly unrelated industries like microbreweries and the production of everyday household products.
Trade secret protection has helped enable the innovation, investment, and cooperation that has made possible the development and delivery of Covid-19 vaccines in record time.
With careful reform of its patent law Indonesia can accelerate its transition to a knowledge-based, wealthy economy.
Business investment in Canada is so weak that capital per member of the labour force is falling, and the implications for incomes and competitiveness are ominous. Governments, particularly the federal government, need to get serious about growth to get workers more of the tools they require to compete and thrive, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. Authors William B.P. Robson and Mawakina Bafale write that since 2015 Canada’s stock of capital per available worker has been declining and its rate of gross investment per worker has been well below that in the United States and other OECD countries. They examine why Canada might be lagging as well as what action to take.
Using federal procurement to advance sustainable energy goals has had only limited success in the past. To break the pattern, the White House needs a plan that aligns with agency missions, is adequately funded, and fixes perverse budget and procurement rules.