- Contributes to European Commission priorities
- A global Europe: Leveraging our power and partnerships
- A new era for European Defence and Security
- A new plan for Europe’s sustainable prosperity and competitiveness
- Protecting our democracy, upholding our values
- Supporting people, strengthening our societies and our social model
- Sustaining our quality of life: Food security, water and nature
Portfolio overview
Disruptive shifts in the global economy underline the importance of safeguarding EU competitiveness, investment and innovation. The Draghi report, along with the Letta Single Market report, emphasises the need for the EU to deepen the internal market, secure its supply chains, increase its resilience and support the transformation of its industry.
This portfolio aims to boost the analytical support for EU competitiveness by combining economic, social and technical expertise with extensive quantitative and qualitative capacities and strong impact assessment tools.
Objectives
Help to bridge the innovation gapMonitor cross-border investments, analyse private research and development, and look at private capital, with the aim of increasing EU productivity and competitiveness.
Explore finance as a driver of competitivenessAnalyse several aspects of finance, such as the availability of different sources of funds and associated cost of capital.
Focus on finance’s contribution to investment and innovation, including low-carbon technologies.
Support European Commission risk assessments for key supply chainsIdentify economic risks of cross-border investments and monitor trade dependencies.
Detect structural breaks, anomalies and trends in trade flows, and conduct macro- and microeconomic analysis.
Support the design on EU innovation, industrial and trade policiesAssess the quantitative impact of such policies on industry at EU, national and regional levels with the use of JRC’s FIDELIO model.
Explore and monitor drivers of European industry’s competitivenessMonitor energy prices and technologies, and investigate how they contribute to European industry’s competitiveness.
Analyse startups and scaleupsResearch startups and scaleups in relation to industrial competitiveness, (such as EU performance in the global context, and at EU national/regional levels, and relocation dynamics).
