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Digitalization also affects the quality infrastructure. Conformity assessment bodies (i.e. testing laboratories, certification bodies, inspection bodies, etc.) are on the one hand faced with new test objects that are becoming...

The European Commission has identified six key-enabling technologies (KET) which they consider essential in order to boost Europe’s competitiveness, employment prospects and long-term term growth. Previous research already...

This project aims to assess to which extent Local Content Requirements (LCR), a industrial policy that increasingly is being employed by governments in developing and emerging economies to create local manufacturing capacities,...

Following various changes in the global geopolitical landscape, there is an increasing call for securing technological, but also digital sovereignty. Edler et al. (2020) define technology sovereignty as "the ability of a...

With increasing geopolitical uncertainties and changing policy patterns, the occurrence of trade conflicts must be expected to increase. For Germany and the EU, this means that trade relations with other countries must...

Innovation is mostly seen as something positive for economic and also societal development. It is conceived as worthy of support, meaning policy makers have been enthusiastically promoting innovative activities. However,...

With increasing geopolitical uncertainties and changing policy patterns, the occurrence of trade conflicts must be expected to increase. For Germany and the EU, this means that trade relations with other countries must...