Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer

Industrial policy in China: Four key facts Industrial policy is often discussed through high-level narratives and flagship initiatives, yet its implementation—particularly at the subnational level—remains opaque. By using large language models...

🆕 Industrial policy in China: Four key facts

Today on VoxDev, Hanming Fang (@upenn.edu), Ming Li (CUHK) & Guangli Lu (CUHK) analyse industrial policy in China across various levels of government: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

In 2014, half of Greece's electricity was generated by coal.

A decade later, that share has fallen to just 6%.

Extreme Hitzewelle im westlichen Mittelmeer: Temperatur liegt um rund 5 Grad über den üblichen Werten für Anfang Sommer. Das hat Auswirkungen auf unser Wetter: mehr Hitze->mehr Extrem.
(Quelle Bild: European Union, Copernicus Marine Service Data)

Chart showing the relative sizes and partisan lean of generations over time. The chart shows how Gen Z and Millenials grew from 2012 to 2024 and also swung towards the Republican Party

For the first time in history, Gen Z and Millenials together made up a bigger share of the electorate than Baby Boomers. They also swung heavily towards Donald Trump.

@daniellaraz.bsky.social and I wrote about the Zillennial election: www.economist.com/united-state...

Regierung Trump verbietet Harvard die Aufnahme von Ausländern Das Heimatschutzministerium der US-Regierung von Präsident Donald Trump hat der Eliteuniversität untersagt, internationale Studierende aufzunehmen. Bereits studierende Ausländer müssen demnach die Uni...

Was zur Hölle? Harvard darf keine ausländischen Studierenden mehr aufnehmen. Derzeit dort studierende müssen gehen. Das ist die Zerstörung der Universität Nummer 1 der USA. Das ist totale Eskalation. Ich habe keine Worte.
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

#Innovation should be “in the air,” but for many firms, it’s suffocating.
In a new Research Policy article, @martinapardy.bsky.social shows that as MNEs scale up, middle-tier #firms #patent less—outgunned and outpaced in a race where scale has become the strategy.
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage, and deadly outbreaks.

Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage and deadly outbreaks.

In this article @scientificdiscovery.dev & @spoonerf.bsky.social explain how vaccines were developed and their impact on saving lives. ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

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In China sinken die CO2-Emissionen. Der radikale Ausbau von erneuerbarer Energie zeigt Wirkung. Details hier: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...

Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

A data visualization titled "Globally, electricity and heat produce the most emissions, but in some countries, transport now emits more," showing emissions measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents over a 100-year timescale. The main section features a line graph for the world, indicating that electricity and heat (in blue) contribute significantly to carbon emissions, peaking around 200 million tonnes, while transport (in pink) shows a gradual increase. There are three smaller graphs for the United Kingdom, Austria, and the overall world, demonstrating trends from 1990 to 2021. In the United Kingdom's graph, transport emissions appear fairly stable with some fluctuations, while electricity and heat emissions show a decline after peaking. Austria's graph follows a similar pattern. The gray lines represent other sectors, which include aviation, shipping, buildings, and waste, displaying lower and more stable levels of emissions across the graphs.

Transport now emits more than electricity and heat in some countries

EU countries most exposed to the already announced new US tariffs on cars, pharma, and steel exports:

Ireland, Belgium, Slovakia, Germany, Austria.

via @danielkral.bsky.social

In 2004, it took the world a year to add one gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day.

🚨 📣 🚨 Job claxon🚨 📣 🚨

We are hiring TWO (senior) researchers for transformative innovation and innovation policy!

We are looking for two researchers, one research assistant, and one project manager (25-40 hours/week) to join our team.

www.zsi.at/de/object/ne...

Maybe something for your reading list? :)
Please have a look!

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Testing the framework (see below) using a semiconductor innovation zone in Québec as a case study, we conclude that success depends on aligning expectations and reconciling perspectives on its purpose across policymaking levels and involved actors.

It is within this context that we propose the concept of Strategic Regional Path Development (SPRD), understood as a mechanism for (supra-) national industrial capacity-building in specific places. SPRD has several defining featrues, most importantly: it's based on top-down government interventions.

Amid growing geopolitical tensions and supply chain fragilities, many countries adopt new industrial policies to reshore strategic industries.

At the same time, regional dev. itself is becoming a strategic priority, as feelings of disenfranchisement are on the rise and reflected in voting patterns.

🥁New Workinger Paper out: "𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁? 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀’ 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆" together with D. Doloreux, R. Shearmur & A. Gauthier!

In the CIRCLE WP Series
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A short thread 1/
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Sehr spannend! Danke für den Hinweis :)

#Südwind hat in Kooperation mit der #Arbeiterkammer Wien ein sehr lesenswertes Dossier über die weltweite Ungleichverteilung von Reichtum und deren gravierende Auswirkungen auf die Klimakrise aus der Perspektive des Globalen Südens veröffentlicht! 1/5

New article with Michaela Trippl and Maximilian Benner on how the CORIS approach (challenge-oriented regional innovation system) can inform regional innovation and economic policy practice (in German):

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#geoinno #geosky