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  <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98783" />
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  <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98783</id>
  <updated>2026-05-04T11:58:29Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-05-04T11:58:29Z</dc:date>
  <entry>
    <title>Competitiveness in the age of geopolitics: What agenda does the EU really need?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/336801" />
    <author>
      <name>Raza, Werner</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Maukner, Julian</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/336801</id>
    <updated>2026-02-19T06:02:20Z</updated>
    <published>2026-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Competitiveness in the age of geopolitics: What agenda does the EU really need?
Authors: Raza, Werner; Maukner, Julian
Abstract: Competitiveness has returned to the fore of European economic policymaking with a vengeance. In this paper, we scrutinize the recent debate on the need for promoting European competitiveness, as prominently diagnosed by the Draghi Report. By disaggregating the overall academic and policy-oriented debate on competitiveness into three distinct conceptual strands - market share-focused competitiveness, productivity-focused competitiveness, and beyond-GDP competitiveness - we conduct a descriptive statistical analysis of competitiveness indicators for both the European Union and the United States. Though our analysis concurs with the Draghi Report by identifying an innovation gap in high-tech services and with respect to energy, by and large the state of EU competitiveness does not appear as bleak as insinuated by the recent public discourse. Based on a highly selective reading of the Draghi Report, the focus of current EU competitiveness policies on across-the-board deregulation will not only contribute little to address the identified problem areas, but risk to become self-defeating as they tend to exacerbate reliance upon an increasingly outdated export-oriented growth model of the EU, given pervasive protectionist tendencies in the global economy. We conclude that a more targeted approach to tackle both the innovation gap and energy dependencies is needed, which should be based on an expansionary public investment agenda and mission-oriented industrial polices.</summary>
    <dc:date>2026-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Green skills and just transitions: Analysing international organisations' discourses with a focus on the Global South</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/340187" />
    <author>
      <name>Langthaler, Margarita</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Catalán Lorca, Marcela</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/340187</id>
    <updated>2026-04-25T04:43:53Z</updated>
    <published>2026-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Green skills and just transitions: Analysing international organisations' discourses with a focus on the Global South
Authors: Langthaler, Margarita; Catalán Lorca, Marcela
Abstract: In recent years, the topic of green transitions has attracted considerable attention. Notably, these transitions are often framed as a skills issue, reflecting perceived gaps in the technical skills required for green technologies. Moreover, skills are frequently presented as central to ensuring that green transitions are socially just. Since the 2010s, international organisations have played a leading role in shaping the green skills debate, with their policy literature exerting significant influence, particularly in the Global South. However, the global debate lacks conceptual clarity. The term 'green skills' encompasses a wide range of meanings. From the perspective of the Global South, additional questions emerge. What do green transitions imply for informal economies and subsistence agriculture? What does it mean, in such contexts, to ensure a just transition? What role can vocational and technical education (VET) systems play and what do they need to meet these expectations? This paper seeks to address part of this gap by analysing green skills publications produced by international organisations, with a particular focus on the Global South. It examines the underlying conceptualisations of green skills and green transitions.</summary>
    <dc:date>2026-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Past, present and future of innovation agencies in Europe</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/304309" />
    <author>
      <name>Kattel, Rainer</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/304309</id>
    <updated>2024-10-18T01:26:19Z</updated>
    <published>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Past, present and future of innovation agencies in Europe
Authors: Kattel, Rainer
Abstract: The European Union, in the face of mounting geo-political and climate challenges, needs a more effective innovation policy. Currently, its broad experimentalist approach to innovation policies gives Member States and regions autonomy for policy design. However, this often needs more effective organisations and capabilities to take advantage of the policy space. Thus, European countries face quite a substantial rethinking of how innovation policy is designed and implemented through innovation agencies. This policy paper argues that on all levels of European governance, policymakers should pay closer attention to designing and developing organisational ecosystems for innovation, focusing on fostering new capabilities. The paper starts with the assumption that European innovation agencies today face two broad challenges. First, they are tasked with, or engaged in, transforming socio-technical systems (e.g., food, mobility); and second, socio-technical systems fall under over-lapping systems of governance (e.g., food system includes elements from energy, waste management, health, and other policy areas), typically governed by different bodies. The transformation challenge indicates that innovation agencies require a broad spectrum of new capabilities across multiple systems. The governance challenge indicates the need for inter-organisational or distributed capabilities (e.g., division of labour and coordination across multiple organisations). This report discusses how innovation agencies are responding to this dual challenge and what critical steps could be taken to increase their capabilities to tackle the challenges effectively.</summary>
    <dc:date>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Active labor market policies in the framework of Just Transition Programs: the case of Italy, Spain, and Germany</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/303040" />
    <author>
      <name>Cirillo, Valeria</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Divella, Marialuisa</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Ferrulli, Eustachio</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Greco, Lidia</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/303040</id>
    <updated>2024-09-27T01:02:14Z</updated>
    <published>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Active labor market policies in the framework of Just Transition Programs: the case of Italy, Spain, and Germany
Authors: Cirillo, Valeria; Divella, Marialuisa; Ferrulli, Eustachio; Greco, Lidia
Abstract: Within the context of the green industrial policies debate, this paper seeks to examine the progress of policy implementation regarding the upskilling and reskilling of workers under the European Just Transition Fund (JTF) 2021-27. Specifically, it focuses on distinct regions in three countries: Italy, Spain, and Germany. Through a combination of desk research and qualitative analysis via interviews with key informants, the research aims at assessing the advancement of training and retraining interventions for workers in those regions and identifying any implementation deficiencies and critical challenges encountered by these initiatives. The paper thus aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on green industrial policies and their implications for just transition and workforce development. Although it is too early for a comprehensive assessment due to limited actions in this field based on JTF implementation so far, some relevant policy implications can be drawn. These refer in particular to the need of better integrating the active labor market policy interventions under examination with a more comprehensive regional development strategy, while taking account of regional specificities and actual workers' needs in such specific contexts.</summary>
    <dc:date>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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