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Labor market regulations play a key role in shaping firms’ technology adoption. The paper finds that stricter employment protection reduces uptake of AI and similar technologies, with important implications for productivity, firm dynamics, and innovation.

WP2025/07 – This paper examines the complexities involved in quantifying the casual impact of the European Union (EU) research and innovation (R&I) funding programmes and offers potential solutions to address them.

WP2025/06 - This paper presents a macroeconomic evaluation of the impact of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, using the general equilibrium models RHOMOLO and FIDELIO.

WP2025/05 - This paper compares public R&I funding across the EU, US, and China - the world's largest R&I spenders – over recent years and identifies five key findings and their policy implications for the EU.

WP2025/04 - This study analyses fragmentation in the EU’s R&I system. It finds that European hubs are significantly less interconnected than their US counterparts, particularly in complex technologies such as AI, biotech, and quantum computing.

WP2025/03 – This paper explores the impact of AI on scientific creativity, examining its use across 80 scientific fields from 2000 to 2022.

WP 2025/01 – This study explores the role of the EU Framework Programme (FP) in supporting and accelerating research and development, market uptake and diffusion within mRNA technology and green hydrogen.

WP 2025/02 – This paper examines the drivers of EU labour productivity before and after the 2007 financial crisis, across goods and services sectors, tangible and intangible assets, and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and non-ICT tangibles.

WP 2024/02 - This report proposes a framework aiming to assess the use of directionality in national R&I systems across the EU and beyond. It adopts a dual approach: a macro perspective using publicly available datasets, and a micro-level approach focusing on specific programmes.