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Reinhilde Veugelers

Senior Fellow

Expertise: Industrial organisation, innovation, science CV: Download CV Twitter: @R_Veugelers

Prof Dr. Reinhilde Veugelers is a full professor at KULeuven (BE) at the Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation.  She is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel since 2009.  She is also a CEPR Research Fellow, a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and of the Academia Europeana. From 2004-2008, she was on academic leave, as advisor at the European Commission (BEPA Bureau of European Policy Analysis).  She served on the ERC Scientific Council from 2012-2018 and on the RISE Expert Group advising the commissioner for Research.  She is a member of VARIO, the expert group advising the Flemish minister for Innovation.    She is currently a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of the journal Science and a co-PI on the Science of Science Funding Initiative at NBER.

With her research concentrated in the fields of industrial organisation, international economics and strategy, innovation and science, she has authored numerous well cited publications in leading international journals.  Specific recent topics include novelty in technology development,  international technology transfers through MNEs, global innovation value chains, young innovative companies, innovation for climate change,  industry science links and their impact on firm’s innovative productivity, evaluation of research & innovation policy,  explaining scientific productivity,  researchers’ international mobility,  novel scientific research.

Websites:
https://feb.kuleuven.be/reinhilde.veugelers
https://bruegel.org/author/reinhilde-veugelers/

Declaration of interests 2021

Declaration of interests 2020

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Working Paper

Raising EU productivity through innovation: Lessons from improved micro data

Combining recent unique firm-level data and state-of-the art research methodologies, MICROPROD research provides a better overview of which firms are most likely to adopt digital technologies and to innovate, and to turn these investments into productivity growth.

By: Reinhilde Veugelers and Frederic Warzynski Topic: Digital economy and innovation, Macroeconomic policy Date: June 13, 2022
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External Publication

How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions

In this paper, the authors identify novel technologies on a large-scale and map their re-use trajectories.

By: Michele Pezzoni, Reinhilde Veugelers and Fabiana Visentin Topic: Digital economy and innovation Date: December 22, 2021
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Working Paper

mRNA vaccines: a lucky shot?

How can the background of mRNA technology development help us understand how public vaccine research and development policy can be improved to generate the full global social benefits from breakthrough novel vaccine technologies?

By: Reinhilde Veugelers Topic: Digital economy and innovation Date: December 13, 2021
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External Publication

Europe's path to net-zero

Fostering the industrial component of the European Green Deal: key principles and policy options.

By: Simone Tagliapietra and Reinhilde Veugelers Topic: Green economy Date: December 3, 2021
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Blog Post

A world divided: global vaccine trade and production

COVID-19 has reinforced traditional vaccine production patterns, but the global vaccine trade has changed considerably.

By: Lionel Guetta-Jeanrenaud, Niclas Poitiers and Reinhilde Veugelers Topic: Global economy and trade Date: July 20, 2021
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Working Paper

Research and innovation policies and productivity growth

Can research and innovation policies power growth? The answer currently can only be a timid yes. Too little is known of what drives the actual effects of R&I policies.

By: Reinhilde Veugelers Topic: Digital economy and innovation Date: May 10, 2021
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Opinion

A green industrial policy for Europe

A ‘green industrial policy’ able to promote economic growth, job creation and environmental goals altogether will be fundamental to Europe’s climate change ambitions.

By: Simone Tagliapietra and Reinhilde Veugelers Topic: Digital economy and innovation, Green economy Date: January 13, 2021
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Blueprint

A green industrial policy for Europe

This Blueprint examines how the European Union can develop a coherent green industrial policy that will serve the goals of the European Green Deal.

By: Simone Tagliapietra and Reinhilde Veugelers Topic: Digital economy and innovation, Green economy Date: December 17, 2020
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