Against the backdrop of the mounting geopolitical rivalries, concerns about economic security and a lack of competitiveness with regard to digital technologies, industrial policy has once again become popular in European policy-making. While initially motivated by the desire to promote the green transition and increase economic resilience, more recently the focus has shifted to security-related concerns, particularly with respect to high-tech and military technologies.

In an upcoming Social Europe Dossier, a group of industrial policy and innovation scholars (i) provides an overview of the current challenges facing EU industrial policy, (ii) points to conceptual and practical deficits of the prevailing approach to industrial policy, particularly with regard to governance issues, and (iii) offers a vision for EU industrial policy based on social inclusion and effective governance.


Welcome:

Judith Vorbach, Head of AK EUROPA
Christa Schlager, Head of Economic Policy Department, AK Vienna

Presentation of the Dossier:

Werner Raza, Director of the Austrian Foundation for Development Research

Panel Discussion:

Sara Matthieu, MEP, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, European Parliament 
Outi Slotboom, Director for Supply Chains and Business Analysis, DG GROW
Isabelle Barthès, Deputy General Secretary, industriAll Europe
Rainer Kattel, Professor of Innovation & Public Governance, IIPP, University College London
Werner Raza, Director of the Austrian Foundation for Development Research

Moderator: Michael Soder, AK Vienna