One of the main objectives of the new European research and innovation policy agenda is to favor the positive demographics (creation and growth) of European Union (EU) companies operating in new/knowledge-intensive industries. These companies play an important role in shaping the dynamism of the...

FOG (« fear of going back to work ») is a new acronym reflecting workers stress to become contamined by COVID-19. In response, firms have been offering protections, extending teleworking as a way to continue to work during the pandemics. Leveraging a classical epidemiologic SIR model, we study...

This paper examines the sources of Europe's lagging business R&D performance relative to the US, particularly the role played by missing young leading innovators in high technology intensive sectors in Europe. It investigates through econometric analysis differences in the rates of return to R&D...

EU Science & Technology (S&T) pre-competitive and near-the-market collaborations are the two main instruments of the European technological policy. In order to grasp the dynamics inherent to the technological collaborative behaviour of European research organisations and to better appreciate to...

We predict the portfolio of COVID-19 vaccination drivers through a large set of Machine Learning techniques for 5 European countries. Risk perceptions matter, on top of citizens’ trust anchored in how institutions have been performing to fight the pandemic before vaccine discovery. We also...