New (short) paper in Science and Public Policy discussing the role of politics in mission-oriented and transformative innovation policies. A topic so far relatively understudied which points to major challenges for the future uptake of these policies: academic.oup.com/spp/advance-...

Meanwhile on X…

(very spot-on comment by commissioner Ferreira 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻)

Here we are at the plenary of the Committee of the Regions where a landmark opinion on the 9th cohesion report/future or cohesion policy, to which I contributed as technical expert alongside Prof. Calin Hintea, is about to be approved. Congratulations to the rapporteurs Vasco Cordeiro and Emil Boc.

Public investment in AI development and adoption: spatial patterns, driving factors, future challenges (and the risk of more regional disparities).

Read our paper here: www.gee.gov.pt/pt/estudos-e...

We organise an exciting special session on the future of cohesion policy evaluation at the next @regstud.bsky.social annual conference. Please consider submitting your work

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www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-rs...!

A thought on the geography of US elections: Biden’s presided over the greatest wave of place-based policies in generations. Yet this has not yielded any particular gains for the Democrats in low income/long term declining counties. GOP has actually increased its lead in rural areas (see FT’s chart).

How has the readiness indicator been constructed? 👇👇👇

How ready are EU regions to tackle climate change? A map covering a selected number of countries.

Source: publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/b...

State Aid in the EU by policy objective: regional aid as well as state aid for R&D and climate/environmental protection on the rise (even prior to the adoption of more flexible state aid rules for green investments in 2022)

Source: academic.oup.com/jcle/advance...

Not counting the further increase in 2022-2023