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Fourth Industrial Revolution

Outer space: the new horizon on EU’s strategic autonomy. Picture of the sun in the night sky from space. Photo: Qimono
Technology and economics

Outer space: the new horizon on EU’s strategic autonomy

By Raquel Jorge Ricart // Posted on 23 Feb 2022
Will Web3 save liberal democracy? People walking on a walkalator. Photo: David Yu
Global Spectator

Will Web3 save liberal democracy?

By Andrés Ortega // Posted on 22 Feb 2022
The potential new German coalition: power and technology. Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany. Photo: Dirk Vorderstraße (CC BY 2.0). Elcano Blog
Future of Europe

The potential new German coalition: power and technology

By Raquel Jorge Ricart // Posted on 26 Nov 2021
Peter Altmaier (German Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy), Bruno Le Maire, (French Minister for Economy and Finance) and Claudia van Veen (Presenter) present the European data infrastructure project GAIA-X (4/6/2020). Source: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Elcano Blog
Future of Europe

GAIA-X: an opportunity for the European digital sovereignty?

By Raquel Jorge Ricart // Posted on 16 Jun 2020
San José City Hall, the capital of Silicon Valley. Photo: Thomas Hawk (CC BY-NC 2.0). Elano Blog
Global Spectator

Silicon Valley, in remote mode

By Andrés Ortega // Posted on 26 May 2020
Big Tech map. Photo: Dunk (CC BY 2.0). Elcano Blog
Technology and economics

Big Tech companies and States: policy or politics?

By Raquel Jorge Ricart // Posted on 02 Mar 2020
The decade of disillusion. Camera wall in Toronto (Canada). Photo: Lianhao Qu (@lianhao). Elcano Blog
Global Spectator

The decade of disillusion

By Andrés Ortega // Posted on 08 Jan 2020
Positions of the Unknown (uncertainty) / Quadrature (DE). Credit: Design Society. Photo: Ars Electronica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Elcano Blog
Globalization, development and governance

Future risks: towards a common governance in light of uncertainty

By Raquel Jorge Ricart // Posted on 22 Nov 2019
Jean-Claude Juncker at the 3rd edition of EU Industry Days, the EC's annual flagship conference on industrial policy (5/2/2019). Photo: Etienne Ansotte, EC-Audiovisual Service, © European Union, 2019. Elcano Blog
Future of Europe

The return of industrial policy: more European than Europeanist

By Andrés Ortega // Posted on 05 Mar 2019
An EU fund for adapting to the technological revolution. Rick's visuals from Talkaoke in Surrey Quays shopping Centre with Southwark Council (Rotherhithe, London). Photo: The People Speak! (CC BY 2.0).
Future of Europe

An EU fund for adapting to the technological revolution

By Andrés Ortega // Posted on 22 Jan 2019
MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM teamLab Borderless, Tokyo (Japan). Photo: rabbit_akra (CC BY 2.0). Blog Elcano
Global Spectator

Globalisation 4.0: people-centred

By Andrés Ortega // Posted on 11 Dec 2018
Silicon Valley from above. Photo: Patrick Nouhailler (CC BY-SA 2.0). Blog Elcano
Global Spectator

An outbreak of ethics in Silicon Valley

By Andrés Ortega // Posted on 31 Jul 2018
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