The blue economy covers a range of traditional and emerging sectors that are essential sources of food, energy, health and leisure for people throughout the world. The blue economy is growing fast and attracting investment worldwide. However, businesses often remain unsustainable. Illegal fishin...
The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the recent trends in the venture capital (VC) market in the European Union (EU). In particular, it investigates and documents the characteristics of VC transactions, venture capitalists and VC-backed firms in the context of EU small and med...
Social outcome contracts (SOCs) is a relatively new type of mechanism in public service procurement. It focuses on harnessing the resources of the public, private, philanthropy and civil society sectors, with the goal of jointly implementing effective interventions in the public domain. The tool...
Peer-to-peer lending platforms connect investors/lenders directly to borrowers by circumventing banks....
The implementation of the cohesion policy funds through operational programmes entails a number of activities, which generate costs by the Commission, Member States and beneficiaries. We examined whether the Commission’s and Member States’ costs of implementing cohesion policy funds are comparab...
The inside story of the European Fund for Strategic Investments from 2015 to 2020 told through interviews with the Managing Director, Deputy Managing Director, members of the Investment Committee and final beneficiaries across Europe. The architects of this €500 billion-plus programme, the head ...
The European Union, with its Member States, is the world’s biggest donor of development assistance and among the first global trading partners and foreign investors. As a Union promoting peace, stability and a rules-based global order, it is faced with many challenges as well as opportunities in...
As a starting point, it is important to remind the underlying philosophy of development of the business case. When the work started in 2015, many different opinions could be met on ERTMS, based on the experience of each and every stakeholder on his scope of work. But as nobody was willing to sha...