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Paul Hofheinz, president and executive director of the Lisbon Council, was quoted in The Economist on how the newly released Digital Single Market Strategy by the European Commission can help European startups scale up: “Moreover, says Paul Hofheinz of the Lisbon Council, a think-tank in Brussels, it is unclear how much the strategy will help those firms that are supposed to create most of the new digital jobs: startups.”

Science Business publishes an article on “Researchers to Take on Publishers Over New EU Copyright Laws” and quotes from Mapping Text and Data Mining in Academic and Research Communities in Europe, a Lisbon Council policy brief written by Associate Director Sergey Filippov.

James Wilsdon, professor of science and democracy in the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex, Rob Doubleday, executive director of the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) at the University of Cambridge, and James Hynard, researcher at the Centre for Science and Policy, publish an article on The Guardian’s Science blog network on Where Next for Scientific Advice in Europe?. The article draws on the conclusions reached at the High-Level Summit on Future Directions for Scientific Advice in Europe, convened by the Lisbon Council and the European Commission in Brussels.

Formiche, an Italian magazine cites “China’s Dangerous Digital Agenda”, an op-ed on Project Syndicate written by Paul Hofheinz, president and executive director of the Lisbon Council, and Robert D. Atkinson, founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

Infojustice.org, reports on the findings of The 2015 Intellectual Property and Economic Growth Index: Measuring the Impact of Exceptions and Limitations in Copyright on Growth, Jobs and Prosperity, a new Lisbon Council policy brief.

Paul Keller, managing director of Kennisland, a premier Dutch knowledge-economy and society think tank, analyses the findings of The 2015 Intellectual Property and Economic Growth Index: Measuring the Impact of Exceptions and Limitations in Copyright on Growth, Jobs and Prosperity, a new Lisbon Council policy brief. He writes: “The 2015 Intellectual Property and Economic Growth Index is a welcome and very timely attempt to provide more evidence.”

Alessandro Leipold, chief economist of the Lisbon Council and former acting director of the European department at the International Monetary Fund, comments on the Greek crisis.