Review: InnovationInnovation reportLisbon scorecard X
  • Book review - Innovation in Europe lacks 'creative destruction': CER report states
    Opinion piece 08 September 2011
    Innovation in Europe lacks 'creative destruction': Report
  • Innovation: How Europe can take off
    Report by Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford, Esko Aho, Jim Attridge, Amar Bhidé, Albert Bravo-Biosca, Nicholas Crafts, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Malcolm Harbour, John Kay, Helga Nowotny, Andreas Schleicher, Michael Schrage and David Willetts., 08 July 2011
  • The Lisbon scorecard X: The road to 2020
    Report by Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford, 15 March 2010
    The Lisbon scorecard X: The road to 2020
  • Industrial policy – back to the future?
    Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 01 June 2007

    In his book ‘Testimony’, Nicolas Sarkozy, the newly elected French president, wrote that his finest hour as finance minister of France was the government’s rescue of Alstom, a French maker of high-speed trains and telecoms equipment.
  • We are all Nordic now, or are we?
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 02 April 2007

    The EU drew up its Lisbon reform agenda in 2000 with the thinly disguised goal of catching up with the US. But the idea that Europe should strive to adopt ‘Anglo-Saxon’ capitalism is abhorrent to those who cherish Europe’s more extensive welfare states.
  • The Lisbon scorecard VII: Will globalistion leave Europe stranded?
    Report by Simon Tilford, 01 February 2007

    Globalisation and the rapid integration of China and India into the international economy present huge opportunities for the European Union.
  • The future of European universities: Renaissance or decay?
    Report by Richard Lambert, Nick Butler, 01 June 2006

    Knowledge is an increasingly critical factor in shaping economic life. But in Europe, the institutions that should be the main sources of knowledge are failing to meet the challenge.
  • Ditchley conference note - The future of the European economy
    Briefing note by Katinka Barysch, 21 March 2006

    In November 2005, the CER took more than 40 of Europe's top economists, policy-makers and commentators to the Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire to discuss 'The future of the European economy'.
  • The Lisbon scorecard VI: Will Europe's economy rise again?
    Report by Aurore Wanlin, 01 March 2006

    The European Union and its 'Lisbon agenda' of economic reform, have received a battering over the past year. The pace of reform has remained slow in the big eurozone countries.
  • The Lisbon scorecard V: Can Europe compete?
    Report by Alasdair Murray, Aurore Wanlin, 01 March 2005

    The EU is half-way through its ten year programme of economic reform, the 'Lisbon agenda'. The EU is unlikely to achieve its goal of becoming the world's most competitive and dynamic economy by 2010.
  • The Lisbon scorecard IV: The status of economic reform in the enlarging EU
    Working paper by Aladair Murray, 05 March 2004

    With cynicism, even derision – this is how many Europeans look at the EU's key economic target, namely to become the "most competitive and dynamic, knowledge-based economy in the world" by 2010.