Last week, the Lisbon Council had the pleasure of welcoming Hal Varian, chief economist of Google and author of Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy. He delivered The 2009 Guglielmo Marconi Lecture - the Lisbon Council’s flagship event on innovation - on “Combinatorial Innovation.” His remarks were fascinating, and can now be [...]

Note to readers: A shortened version of this article appeared in the 22 June edition of Parliament Magazine.
Reflection on the Lisbon Agenda post-2010 is in full swing, and few words are used as often as “innovation” to lay the path for a more successful future course. “Innovation” is seen as the panacea to getting [...]

These days, the Lisbon Agenda, Europe’s Growth and Jobs Programme, is making an unexpected comeback in the news. Usually in reference to José Manuel Barroso’s bid for a second term at the helm of the European Commission, portraying his commitment to this policy process as misguided, for one because the targets have not been met, [...]