Publications on the topic of “Growth needs Innovation” - Security – Innovation – Democracy
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Publications on the topic of “Growth needs Innovation”
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Global Economic Governance in a Fragmented World
How Geopolitics Shapes International Cooperation and its Institutions
The global rules-based order is undergoing its most significant stress test since the end of the Second World War. Through this compilation, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung seeks to contribute to ongoing discourse surrounding the future of global governance within the realms of economic and trade policy. The focus is on the institutions via which global governance is exercised. Four chapters offer a multi‑dimensional perspective on the challenges and potential pathways for the future architecture of global economic governance.
Gunter Rieck Moncayo, Christian E. Rieck, Keith Rockwell, Edmund Terence Gomez, Nikolaus Rischbieter
March 27, 2026
Single title
Smarterpix / DavoeWebster
Alarming Decline in Biodiversity
Insights to the value of ecosystem service for the economy
The loss of biodiversity is progressing worldwide on a historic scale and endangers key ecosystem services – from pollination to coastal protection to water supply. Economic activities are among the main drivers of biodiversity decline. At the same time, this creates considerable risks for companies, investments and global value chains. Biodiversity policy should therefore be understood not only as environmental policy, but also as economic policy with all relevant stakeholders playing their part.
Dr. Christoph Biehl
March 19, 2026
Sustainability Monitor
smarterpix / HayDmitriy
AI literacy requirements should be reformed to be more practical
Article 4 of the AI Act: Good for bureaucracy, bad in practice
Article 4 of the AI Act leads to abstract, one-off training courses that can be easily monitored bureaucratically. In practice, however, they offer little real added value. What is needed instead are agile, sector-specific teaching and learning programmes. Art. 4 should therefore be amended with the Digital Omnibus.
Leonie Mader
February 20, 2026
kurzum
Ukrainian Centre for European Policy
Procedure for verifying compliance of liquid biofuels and biogas intended for use in the transport sector
Research by the Ukrainian Centre for European Policy
Метою цього Порядку є встановлення єдиних вимог та процедур підтвердження відповідності рідкого біопалива (біокомпонентів) та біогазу, призначених для використання у галузі транспорту, критеріям сталості, визначеним законодавством України та актами права Європейського Союзу, що підлягають імплементації відповідно до Угоди про асоціацію між Україною та ЄС та Договору про заснування Енергетичного Співтовариства.
Hennadii Riabtsev
February 18, 2026
Single title
UCEP
Sustainability Criteria for Liquid Biofuels and Biogas in the Transport Sector
EU requirements and recommendations for Ukraine
This study by the Ukrainian Centre for European Policy is dedicated to establishing in Ukraine a modern, transparent, and EU-law-compliant system for verifying the sustainability of liquid biofuels, biocomponents, and biogas used in the transport sector. The publication analyses the requirements of the RED II and RED III Directives and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/996, identifies gaps in Ukrainian legislation, and proposes a detailed model for a national procedure for verifying compliance with sustainability criteria
Dmytro Naumenko
February 12, 2026
Single title
Science and Innovation: The Israeli Miracle
Visit of Florian Müller, Spokesperson for Science, Research, and Space of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag.
Florian Müller, Spokesperson for Science, Research, and Space of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag, visited Israel from February 8 to 11.
Dr. Michael Rimmel, Pascal Franz
February 12, 2026
Single title
IMAGO / Xinhua
World trade continues even without WTO reform
The EU can shape trade rules with its partners
From 26 to 29 March 2026, the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference will be held in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Expectations for this highest-ranking world trade body are extremely low. No one seriously believes that the deadlock that has persisted since the 4th Ministerial Conference in Doha can be broken. The fundamental reform of the WTO that has been called for years will not succeed this time either. While this is not good news for the global trade order, it does not mean that the constructive forces within the international community, and in particular the EU, have their hands tied.
Gunter Rieck Moncayo
February 10, 2026
kurzum
IMAGO / Zoonar
EU Climate Policy in an Uncertain World
How Europe Should Use Emissions Trading for Partnerships and Resilience – and Why This Requires Social Acceptance and Regulatory Clarity
High costs are putting EU climate policy under pressure as global rules erode. Europe’s response should follow Social Market Economy principles: aligning carbon prices globally and create reliable, rules‑based frameworks. The EU can use its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to incentivize climate clubs and rely on Article 6 for targeted partnerships. This requires strong domestic acceptance: revenues from carbon pricing must be returned transparently, fairly, and visibly – and the EU Emissions Trading System must be strengthened as the central rules‑based instrument of European climate policy.
Dr. Christian Hübner
February 9, 2026
Sustainability Monitor
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
From research to business: Innovation transfer in Germany
Status, international best practices and perspectives
Economic innovation processes are based on the constant exchange of new knowledge, ideas, technical and organisational expertise that is suitable for commercial exploitation. Both the emergence and diffusion of innovations require extensive networks of different actors – companies, universities, research institutions – who are involved in generating knowledge for innovations, translating this knowledge into marketable innovations, further developing their products and disseminating them as part of their economic activities.
Dr. Michael Rothgang, Dr. Bernhard Lageman
December 17, 2025
Single title
The Inflation Reduction Act
Impacts on Cleantech, Trade and Investment
The United States have seen significant developments in key cleantech sectors following the introduction of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). With the expiration of some support instruments in 2025, a new chapter for cleantech trade and investment in the United States is about to begin in 2026. This publication, produced in collaboration with E3G, examines the IRA’s impact on investment flows, imports, and exports across major U.S. cleantech sectors.
