Innovation in Silicon Valley
Ann Mettler, executive director of the Lisbon Council, blogs about her recent visit to the Silicon Valley. In an entry entitled "European in Silicon Valley," she shares some of key…
Summits
Digital Opportunity for Europe: IP and Growth
The Lisbon Council convened a policy briefing on How the Intellectual Property Framework Supports Innovation and Growth. The keynote address was delivered by Prof. Ian Hargreaves, who presented the main findings of Digital…
Innovation Union: Smart Solutions to Grand Challenges
The Lisbon Council convened its June 2011 Zukunftssalon: Forum for the Future under the timely theme of Innovation Union: Smart Solutions to Europe’s Grand Challenges. The dinner debate concentrated on how to turn…
Jean-Claude Juncker Keynotes Government of the Future Summit
Convening under the timely theme Modernising the State for the Post-Crisis World, The 2011 Government of the Future Summit gathered European decision makers and senior government officials and explored key topics, such as…
Europe’s Single Market and Public Procurement
Convening under the timely theme Unleashing Europe’s Single Market: How Public Procurement Can Deepen Integration, Drive Innovation and Bolster Efficiency, this high-level roundtable brought together senior leaders from across Europe with…
Lessons of Past Sovereign Debt Restructurings
The Lisbon Council launches Thinking the Unthinkable: Lessons of Past Sovereign Debt Restructurings, a new e-brief by Alessandro Leipold, chief economist of the Lisbon Council and former acting director of the European…