European Industrial Policy in the New Global Context

Launch Event of LUHNIP - Luiss Hub for New Industrial Policy and Economic Governance - organized by the Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy - LEAP and Sapienza University of Rome

A two-day launch event for LUHNIP – the Luiss Hub for New Industrial Policy and Economic Governance – organized by the Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy (LEAP) and Sapienza University of Rome. 

Day 1 - September 19, 2024, 9:15 am
Aula Acquario, Sapienza University of Rome, Via del Castro Laurenziano 9, Rome

9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks
Giuseppe Ciccarone, Vice Rector, Sapienza University of Rome
Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome
Michele Raitano, Dean of the Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome

Introductory Remarks
Dario Guarascio, Sapienza University of Rome
Donato Di Carlo, Luiss Hub for New Industrial Policy and Economic Governance – LUHNIP

9:45 am Keynote Speech - Industrial Policy and Regional Development Traps in Europe
Ron Boschma Utrecht University 10:45 a.m. Coffee Break

11:15 a.m. Session 1 - Technological Sovereignty, Strategic Dependency, and Global Value Chain Re-Configuration
Chair and Introduction
Dario Guarascio, Sapienza University of Rome

GVC Reorganization in Uncertain Times
Giorgia Giovannetti, University of Florence

EU’s Industrial Policy Adapting to Shifting Geo-Economics and Geo-Politics
Michael Landesmann WIIW

Navigating a Fragmenting Global Trading System: Current Status and Future Directions
Michele Mancini, Bank of Italy

Trends in European Value Chains and Employment in Europe
Valentina Meliciani Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy – LEAP

Discussants
Jelena Reljic, Sapienza University of Rome
Antonello Zanfei, University of Urbino

12:45 pm Lunch Break

2:00 pm Keynote Speech – Innovations for Europe's Green Industrial Policy
Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven

3:00 pm Session 2 – Industrial Policy in Europe and Italy
Chair and Introduction
Mario Pianta Scuola Normale Superiore

Industrial Policy for Innovation: The European Experience
Chiara Criscuolo, International Finance Corporation

Science and New Developments in Industrial Policy
Patrick Llerena, University of Strasbourg

Industrial Policy in Europe and Italy: Old and New Challenges
Giovanni Dosi Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

The Renewables Pull and the Restructuring of European Heavy Industries
Janek Steitz Dezernat Zukunft

How to Respond to Chinese and US Industrial Policy
Giorgio Prodi, University of Ferrara

Discussants
Francesco Crespi Roma Tre University
Francesco Zezza, Sapienza University of Rome

4:30 pm Coffee Break

5:00 pm Concluding Roundtable – European Industrial Policy in the New Global Context
Riccardo Crescenzi, London School of Economics
Simone Vannuccini, Université Côte d'Azur
Francesca Bria, President, Italian National Innovation Fund
Cyprien Batut, Institute Avant-garde

Chair
Maria Savona  Luiss University and SPRU

Day 2 - September 20, 2024, 9:15 am - EU Industrial Policy Report by the Luiss Hub for New Industrial Policy - LUHNIP
Room 203, Luiss Campus, Viale Romania 32, Rome

9:15 am Institutional Greetings
Paolo Boccardelli, Rector, Luiss University
Valentina Meliciani, Director, Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy (LEAP)
Donato Di Carlo, Director, Luiss Hub for New Industrial Policy - LUHNIP
Ludovic Sutter-Sorel, European Macro Policy Network

9:30 am Panel 1 - Institutions and Governance of the New EU Industrial Policy

Learning from the past? What Should Europe Learn Today From Its Past Industrial Policy Challenges?
Dimitri Zurstrassen, LUHNIP
Sanne van der Lugt, LeidenAsiaCentre

Enacting Industrial Policy in a Multi-Level Polity: What Legal Foundations for the New EU Industrial Policy and Economic Governance?
Paul Dermine, Free University of Brussels
Maria Patrin, University of Florence

Assessing Affinities Among the Commission, the ECB, and the EIB in the Pursuit of EU Industrial Policy
Daniel Mertens, University of Osnabrück
Matthias Thiemann, Sciences Po

Governing Data: Challenges and Policy Trade-Offs
Maria Savona Luiss University and SPRU

The Political Accountability of the EU’s Supranational Institutions in the Pursuit of Industrial Policy
Sebastian Diessner, Leiden University
Christy Ann Petit, Dublin City University

Chair
Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven

11:15 am Coffee Break

11:45 am Panel 2 - The Spatial Dimension of the New EU Industrial Policy

<p > United in Diversity? Core-Periphery Dynamics in the New EU Industrial Policy
Dario Guarascio, Jelena Reljic, and Annamaria Simonazzi from Sapienza University of Rome

Taking the Territorial Dimension of Industrial Policy Seriously: Industrial and Cohesion Policy in the EU
Vassilis Monastiriotis, Riccardo Crescenzi, and Tea Gamtkitsulashvili London School of Economics

Together we Trade, Divided We Aid: EU Industrial Policy, State Aid, and the Relaxation of the EU Competition Regime
Donato Di Carlo LUHNIP
Andreas Eisl Jacques Delors Institute
Dimitri Zurstrassen LUHNIP

A Continent in Search of Skills? Supporting the Twin Transition through Skills Development Policy
Niccolo Durazzi, University of Edinburgh
Patrick Emmenegger, University of St. Gallen
Alina Felder, University of St. Gallen

Chair
Ron Boschma, Utrecht University

1:15 pm Lunch Break

2:30 pm Introduction
Luigi Gubitosi, President, Luiss University

2:40 pm Keynote Speech: Assets and Liabilities of a Possible EU Strategic Autonomy
Romano Prodi

3:30 pm Panel 3 - EU Strategic Autonomy in a Complex Multipolar World

As Autonomous as Possible, as Open as Necessary: EU Open Strategic Autonomy in the Green and Digital Value Chains
Valentina Meliciani & Filippo Bontadini Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy – LEAP

The Dual Challenge of the New EU Industrial Policy: Strengthening Competitiveness While Enhancing Economic Security
Paolo Guerrieri, Sciences Po & LEAP
Pier Carlo Padoan Unicredit & LEAP

EU energy policy
Alexandre Marin RIVA Group

EU Defense Industrial Policy
Samuel Faure, Sciences Po Saint-Germain

Chair
Michael Landesmann Wiiw and Johannes Kepler University
Linz

5:00 pm Coffee Break

5:30 pm Concluding Roundtable – European Industrial Policies for Open Strategic Autonomy
Emanuele Tarantino Luiss University
Franco Mosconi, University of Parma
Marcella Panucci Luiss University and MUR
Antti Alaja UTAK

Chair
Marco Simoni, Luiss University

 

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