innovation

February 5, 2020

What Policy Questions Will Be Created by Driverless Cars?

The 2020s will see the introduction of one of the most profoundly transformative technologies for decades: the driverless car. In the world we have inhabited for the past 60 years, most adults own cars that they drive daily, which they then park in their garages, front yards or on the street, or in car parks when they go to the shops or the train station or the airport.
November 26, 2019

Agricultural Innovation Over Intervention

There is reason to believe that population growth, natural resource scarcity and climate change will challenge agriculture to deliver food security in the coming decades. The world population is expected to reach 10.5 billion by 2100.
March 2, 2015

Smoking or Vaping: the Revolution in Tobacco and Nicotine Consumption

Long denigrated and accused of every imaginable evil, the tobacco market is undergoing a renaissance with innovations that can change consumers’ habits — and health.
November 26, 2014

“Unbundling” Search Engines

Given the lack of evidence of anti-competitive behaviour in the search engine market, action by the European Commission is unjustified. “Unbundling” will harm innovation, economic growth and the rule of law in the EU.