Industrial Policy Group
@industrialpolicy.bsky.social
All things industrial policy.
From the Industrial Policy Group lab. Co-founded by Dr. Réka Juhász and Dr. Nathan Lane. 🔗 https://industrialpolicygroup.com
From the Industrial Policy Group lab. Co-founded by Dr. Réka Juhász and Dr. Nathan Lane. 🔗 https://industrialpolicygroup.com
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Adam Smith may have won the intellectual battle of ideas, but mercantilism has survived, and sometimes to good effects, from Dani Rodrik www.nber.org/papers/w34353
October 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Adam Smith may have won the intellectual battle of ideas, but mercantilism has survived, and sometimes to good effects, from Dani Rodrik www.nber.org/papers/w34353
Excited for this! Make sure to register! stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/picking-winn...
October 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Excited for this! Make sure to register! stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/picking-winn...
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Our discussion with the European Space Policy Institute on Europe's space industrial policy is happening this Thursday, 16 October!
We will hear from experts in the field to discuss Europe's priorities in space policy.
FIND OUT MORE 👉 www.ceps.eu/ceps-events/...
We will hear from experts in the field to discuss Europe's priorities in space policy.
FIND OUT MORE 👉 www.ceps.eu/ceps-events/...
October 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Aghion (et al) have a paper on China, they recognised long ago & before many that the Chinese model departs from the East Asia model in having a Darwinian struggle-to-the-death competition of firms behind a wall of protection. It pairs Schumpeterian growth theory w the economics of industrial policy
October 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Aghion (et al) have a paper on China, they recognised long ago & before many that the Chinese model departs from the East Asia model in having a Darwinian struggle-to-the-death competition of firms behind a wall of protection. It pairs Schumpeterian growth theory w the economics of industrial policy
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AI infrastructure is surging, but broader US manufacturing investment is slowing.
The risk: an AI boom that enriches tech firms more than people. A smart industrial policy will translate AI’s surge into quality jobs.
An 🎯 piece from @ianrharnett.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c7b9453e-f...
The risk: an AI boom that enriches tech firms more than people. A smart industrial policy will translate AI’s surge into quality jobs.
An 🎯 piece from @ianrharnett.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c7b9453e-f...
The AI capex endgame is approaching
The rapid building of excess capacity both extends bubbles and ultimately bursts them
www.ft.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
AI infrastructure is surging, but broader US manufacturing investment is slowing.
The risk: an AI boom that enriches tech firms more than people. A smart industrial policy will translate AI’s surge into quality jobs.
An 🎯 piece from @ianrharnett.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c7b9453e-f...
The risk: an AI boom that enriches tech firms more than people. A smart industrial policy will translate AI’s surge into quality jobs.
An 🎯 piece from @ianrharnett.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c7b9453e-f...
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"Industrial policy can never work" edition X.
October 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"Industrial policy can never work" edition X.
"U.S. President Donald Trump’s America First economic vision is pushing Canada to follow suit" @theglobeandmail.com article on Canada's turn to industrial policy focused on stimulating domestic demand for products exported to the US.
October 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"U.S. President Donald Trump’s America First economic vision is pushing Canada to follow suit" @theglobeandmail.com article on Canada's turn to industrial policy focused on stimulating domestic demand for products exported to the US.
Highlights from @nathanlane.bsky.social's interview with @visiblehandpod.bsky.social: reflections on qualitative and hard econometric evidence in industrial policy studies, and the external validity of HCI drive successes: spillovers can apply broadly, but South Korea's bureaucracy was crucial. 🙌
October 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Highlights from @nathanlane.bsky.social's interview with @visiblehandpod.bsky.social: reflections on qualitative and hard econometric evidence in industrial policy studies, and the external validity of HCI drive successes: spillovers can apply broadly, but South Korea's bureaucracy was crucial. 🙌
In some senses you can see this as a form of industrial policy stimulating the growth of the arts sector, this is great for those who like the arts and those who produce art! Assuming the implementation is good etc. etc. 🎨🎵✒️
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
In some senses you can see this as a form of industrial policy stimulating the growth of the arts sector, this is great for those who like the arts and those who produce art! Assuming the implementation is good etc. etc. 🎨🎵✒️
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Fantastic piece by @theglobeandmail.com on how smaller countries are grappling with the consequences of America First! 🙌🙌https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-trump-america-first-canada-economic-nationalism/
Pushed by Trump, Canada enters a new era of economic nationalism
The U.S. President’s ‘America First’ economic vision is pushing Ottawa to reach for a Canada First toolkit – one that would have been inconceivable a year ago
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Fantastic piece by @theglobeandmail.com on how smaller countries are grappling with the consequences of America First! 🙌🙌https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-trump-america-first-canada-economic-nationalism/
Our co-founder @nathanlane.bsky.social featured on @visiblehandpod.bsky.social for a fascinating conversation on South Korea's Industrial Policy! 🙌
Nathan Lane on South Korea's Industrial Policy: www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/epi...
Episode 96: Nathan Lane on South Korea’s Industrial Policy — The Visible Hand
www.thevisiblehand.uk
October 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Our co-founder @nathanlane.bsky.social featured on @visiblehandpod.bsky.social for a fascinating conversation on South Korea's Industrial Policy! 🙌
IPG's @nathanlane.bsky.social spoke to EconomyChosun on the South Korea Petrochemicals industry in light of the recent government industrial restructuring plan. Great insights. Industrial policy in managing challenging times, the importance of involving companies, setting realistic expectations. 🙌
조선비즈가 만드는 프리미엄 경제 주간지 - 이코노미조선
경제경영계의 오피니언 리더들에게 유익한 정보와 인사이트를 제공합니다
economychosun.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
IPG's @nathanlane.bsky.social spoke to EconomyChosun on the South Korea Petrochemicals industry in light of the recent government industrial restructuring plan. Great insights. Industrial policy in managing challenging times, the importance of involving companies, setting realistic expectations. 🙌
This is very interesting!
In the latest Mooseworks, CCI Director of Policy and Research Laurent Carbonneau considers how innovation could play a role in addressing housing affordability.
Read the full piece here: www.canadianinnovators.org/content/from-artisanal-to-industrial-transforming-canadas-homebuilding-industry
Read the full piece here: www.canadianinnovators.org/content/from-artisanal-to-industrial-transforming-canadas-homebuilding-industry
October 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is very interesting!
Two events this week in Industrial Policy practice:
1. Keir Starmer's Labour Party Conference speech places industrial policy as central to "national renewal" 💫
2. The US government bought a 5% equity stake in Lithium Americas aiming to secure supply chains for batteries and EVs 🔋
1. Keir Starmer's Labour Party Conference speech places industrial policy as central to "national renewal" 💫
2. The US government bought a 5% equity stake in Lithium Americas aiming to secure supply chains for batteries and EVs 🔋
October 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Two events this week in Industrial Policy practice:
1. Keir Starmer's Labour Party Conference speech places industrial policy as central to "national renewal" 💫
2. The US government bought a 5% equity stake in Lithium Americas aiming to secure supply chains for batteries and EVs 🔋
1. Keir Starmer's Labour Party Conference speech places industrial policy as central to "national renewal" 💫
2. The US government bought a 5% equity stake in Lithium Americas aiming to secure supply chains for batteries and EVs 🔋
Great guide to context engineering from the Anthropic team www.anthropic.com/engineering/... @anthropic.com
Effective context engineering for AI agents
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Great guide to context engineering from the Anthropic team www.anthropic.com/engineering/... @anthropic.com
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From EVs to batteries to heat pumps and more, clean technology is transforming the economics and geopolitics of energy.
Take a crash course in electrotech with these episodes from Energi Media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC6ToNSeerE&list=PL0nvJ0fD_HvCBDfjyv88jVS07N0Bljhcb
Take a crash course in electrotech with these episodes from Energi Media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC6ToNSeerE&list=PL0nvJ0fD_HvCBDfjyv88jVS07N0Bljhcb
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October 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
From EVs to batteries to heat pumps and more, clean technology is transforming the economics and geopolitics of energy.
Take a crash course in electrotech with these episodes from Energi Media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC6ToNSeerE&list=PL0nvJ0fD_HvCBDfjyv88jVS07N0Bljhcb
Take a crash course in electrotech with these episodes from Energi Media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC6ToNSeerE&list=PL0nvJ0fD_HvCBDfjyv88jVS07N0Bljhcb
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We’re super excited to welcome Katharina Erhardt as the new Head of our Industrial Policy Lab—a joint project with @zew.de & @delorsberlin.bsky.social.
In a joint professorship with @hhu.de / @dice.hhu.de, Katharina will also further strengthen our Research Center Trade 👋!
In a joint professorship with @hhu.de / @dice.hhu.de, Katharina will also further strengthen our Research Center Trade 👋!
October 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We’re super excited to welcome Katharina Erhardt as the new Head of our Industrial Policy Lab—a joint project with @zew.de & @delorsberlin.bsky.social.
In a joint professorship with @hhu.de / @dice.hhu.de, Katharina will also further strengthen our Research Center Trade 👋!
In a joint professorship with @hhu.de / @dice.hhu.de, Katharina will also further strengthen our Research Center Trade 👋!
Very interesting work by @lowyinstitute.bsky.social. Ambitious green industrial policy goals are exciting, but we agree success requires more. The institutions tasked with policy design and implementation must have the capacity and incentives to deliver.
“Observers of Indonesia’s past COP campaigns note a recurring pattern: the projects presented often…” Read Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara and Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat in The Interpreter.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/indonesia-s-green-industrial-policy-ahead-cop30
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/indonesia-s-green-industrial-policy-ahead-cop30
Indonesia’s green industrial policy ahead of COP30
Jakarta is playing a balancing act between business wins and climate objectives. Can it work?
www.lowyinstitute.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Very interesting work by @lowyinstitute.bsky.social. Ambitious green industrial policy goals are exciting, but we agree success requires more. The institutions tasked with policy design and implementation must have the capacity and incentives to deliver.
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"Chinese factories installed nearly 300,000 new industrial robots last year alone ... the United States, the world’s largest economy, installed a mere 34,000."
China has an industrial policy. The US has whatever Trump sees a story about on Fox News.
www.zmescience.com/science/chin...
China has an industrial policy. The US has whatever Trump sees a story about on Fox News.
www.zmescience.com/science/chin...
China Now Has More Factory Robots Than the Rest of the World Combined
China’s robot army is reshaping the world as we know it.
www.zmescience.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Chinese factories installed nearly 300,000 new industrial robots last year alone ... the United States, the world’s largest economy, installed a mere 34,000."
China has an industrial policy. The US has whatever Trump sees a story about on Fox News.
www.zmescience.com/science/chin...
China has an industrial policy. The US has whatever Trump sees a story about on Fox News.
www.zmescience.com/science/chin...
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Australian government industrial policy around quantum computing includes $610m in PsiQuantum, $13m Quantum Australia Fund, and investments by National Reconstruction Fund, reports
@nicfildes.ft.com .
www.ft.com/content/3bac...
@nicfildes.ft.com .
www.ft.com/content/3bac...
Australia emerges as quantum computing player with role in Microsoft chip
Advances in the technology have been made possible by sustained government funding since the 1990s
www.ft.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Australian government industrial policy around quantum computing includes $610m in PsiQuantum, $13m Quantum Australia Fund, and investments by National Reconstruction Fund, reports
@nicfildes.ft.com .
www.ft.com/content/3bac...
@nicfildes.ft.com .
www.ft.com/content/3bac...
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The strength of demand for generative AI may be the most critical factor determining whether an infrastructure boom ends in a bust. But three aspects add to the uncertainty
The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom
How similar is it to the 1990s telecoms bubble?
econ.st
October 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The strength of demand for generative AI may be the most critical factor determining whether an infrastructure boom ends in a bust. But three aspects add to the uncertainty
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China is scooping up supply chain information as part of its trade restrictions. Europe lags behind in economic intelligence, but there is a way to start closing this gap with a low-cost, low-bureaucracy, high-impact step, writes @jankaoertel.bsky.social @ecfrasia.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/4mCDg6p
https://bit.ly/4mCDg6p
Carbon copy: How Europe can narrow the economic intelligence gap with China
China is scooping up supply chain information as part of its trade restrictions. Europe lags behind in economic intelligence, but there is a way to start closing this gap with a low-cost…
ecfr.eu
October 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
China is scooping up supply chain information as part of its trade restrictions. Europe lags behind in economic intelligence, but there is a way to start closing this gap with a low-cost, low-bureaucracy, high-impact step, writes @jankaoertel.bsky.social @ecfrasia.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/4mCDg6p
https://bit.ly/4mCDg6p
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🌐 From the first web page created in 1991… to 1 trillion web pages archived today.
Every meme, blog, tweet & vanished site is part of our shared story. This is our collective memory. And it’s being saved.
Join in our celebration this October: blog.archive.org/trillion/
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
Every meme, blog, tweet & vanished site is part of our shared story. This is our collective memory. And it’s being saved.
Join in our celebration this October: blog.archive.org/trillion/
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
October 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🌐 From the first web page created in 1991… to 1 trillion web pages archived today.
Every meme, blog, tweet & vanished site is part of our shared story. This is our collective memory. And it’s being saved.
Join in our celebration this October: blog.archive.org/trillion/
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
Every meme, blog, tweet & vanished site is part of our shared story. This is our collective memory. And it’s being saved.
Join in our celebration this October: blog.archive.org/trillion/
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine
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In a recent @nature.com perspective article, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social professor @jonasmeckling.bsky.social traces the rise of geoeconomic competition in decarbonization policy and spells out its implications for policymakers. besi.berkeley.edu/what-the-geo...
What the geoeconomic turn in decarbonization means for policymakers
For he majority of its history, decarbonization policy focused on distributing the burden of climate change mitigation. Recently, however, decarbonization has a competitive turn, BESI Climate lead…
besi.berkeley.edu
October 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
In a recent @nature.com perspective article, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social professor @jonasmeckling.bsky.social traces the rise of geoeconomic competition in decarbonization policy and spells out its implications for policymakers. besi.berkeley.edu/what-the-geo...