Etienne Oudot de Dainville, Minister Counsellor for Financial Affairs, Head of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Department, Permanent Representation of France to the EU (Brussels)
Clemens Fuest, Daniel Gros, Philipp-Leo Mengel, Giorgio Presidente, and Jean Tirole
The EU is losing the global innovation race. EU industry invests less than its peers in R&D, it lags way behind in software and artificial intelligence, and its pharmaceutical component is at risk. For over 20 years the same companies, mostly from the automotive sector, have dominated EU innovation activity.