March 2016
How is Europe faring on startups? A lot has been spoken about the need to do more to improve the ecosystem for startups, entrepreneurs and “scale-up” organisations. But is anything…
Publications
December 2015
Fiscal repair and structural reforms were difficult. But the bitter medicine has worked. The systemic euro crisis is history. Most reform countries at the periphery are reaping the rewards of…
November 2015
The European Digital Forum launches Government of the Future: How Digital Technology Will Change the Way We Live, Work and Govern at the eGovernment Conference Luxembourg 2015, a minister-level informal gathering hosted by…
July 2015
The Lisbon Council, a leading Brussels-based think tank, and Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), a top Washington, DC-based think tank, jointly release Uncovering the Hidden Value of Digital Trade: Towards a 21st…
June 2015
After months of perilous brinkmanship and marathon meetings, culminating in virtually round-the-clock negotiations this week, an agreement between Greece and the institutions still remains elusive, and another drop-dead eurogroup meeting…
May 2015
In a new policy brief, published by the European Digital Forum, author Sergey Filippov looks at Financial Services in the Digital Age: Leveraging Technology and Regulation to Achieve a Stronger Capital Markets Union. The…
April 2015
On the eve of the 24 April eurogroup meeting in Riga, Latvia, Chief Economist Alessandro Leipold weighs in with “a way out, not an exit” to the Greek crisis. Calling…
March 2015
The Lisbon Council launches The 2015 Intellectual Property and Economic Growth Index: Measuring the Impact of Exceptions and Limitations in Copyright on Growth, Jobs and Prosperity. The product of a year-long…
February 2015
The Lisbon Council in collaboration with Ecofys, a leading energy and environment research agency, and Quintel Intelligence, an energy modelling firm, launch The 2015 Energy Productivity and Economic Prosperity Index: How…
December 2014
The Lisbon Council and Berenberg jointly publish The 2014 Euro Plus Monitor: Leaders and Laggards, the premiere competitiveness ranking published each year. The classification is based on a complex double metric:…
November 2014
The European Digital Forum launches Data-Driven Business Models: Powering Startups in the Digital Age, a policy brief that looks at the growing prominence of data-driven business models for European startups and the increasingly…
November 2014
The European Digital Forum launches Digital Minds for a New Europe, a cutting-edge collection of 44 essays by the world’s leading thinkers on the digital challenges ahead – and the solutions technology can…