CER podcast: Is Europe falling behind technologically?

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🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week's CER podcast is the third of five episodes released in conjunction with the CER's annual economics conference, usually hosted at Ditchley Park but this year held as a webinar series. Christian Odendahl, CER's chief economist, speaks to Stephanie Flanders, head of Bloomberg Economics, about Europe position in the worldwide tech race, the merits of Europen competition policy and Europe’s ability to drive up standards in the digital world. They also discuss the comments from event speakers Hal Varian, Google's Chief Economist, Monika Schnitzer, Economics Professor at LMU in Munich, Thomas Philippon, Finance Professor at NYU Stern School of Business and Merle Maigre, Senior Expert on Cyber Security at the e-Governance Academy in Estonia. Produced by Rosie Giorgi Music by Edward Hipkins

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CEO podcast.
0:04.1	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:05.9	future that we want, and we all
0:08.1	all together, the courage to it construct.
0:10.5	For us in Germany, is the
0:11.9	Bekindness to the European Europe,
0:14.1	a part of our state's resolve.
0:15.7	A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world,
0:17.9	because an integrated Europe remains vital to our
0:20.1	international order. This is the moment for Europe world because integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.3	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:27.5	Welcome to a new episode of the CER podcast.
0:30.6	My name is Christian Odell.
0:32.2	I'm the chief economist at the CER.
0:34.5	And this week's episode is again a special digitally episodes in parallel with our annual
0:39.9	digital conference, which is happening in digital form this time. The title of this year's
0:45.8	conference is COVID-19, the global recovery and the return of power politics. I will later be joined
0:52.7	by Stephanie Flanders from Bloomberg Economics, but before
0:56.0	that, I will summarize the latest session at our event, which was on technology and innovation
1:01.8	in Europe. We asked whether Europe was falling behind technologically and whether that mattered.
1:08.9	As an economist, my first thought was, well, as long as technology is widely available
1:13.6	across borders, it doesn't matter where it was invented.
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