The international fragmentation of production in global value chains (GVCs) challenges the way we look at the global economy. It is essential to understand how global value chains work, how they affect economic performance, and how policy can help countries to derive benefits from their particip...
The economic recovery in the Western Balkans gained further pace during the third quarter, with annual GDP growth accelerating in most countries of the region. In many cases, the good growth performance rests on stronger investment spending and exports and a broadening of the recovery across mor...
The contractual Public-Private Partnerships (cPPPs) launched in Horizon 2020 address research and innovation activities in areas of strategic importance to the European Union’s competitiveness and industrial leadership, and offer solutions for specific societal challenges. Initially introduced a...
Industrial robots and robot applications are a key enabling technology to improve the competitiveness of the European manufacturing industry and the overall welfare of society. This study provides novel empirical evidence that the positive stimulation provided by the further development and diff...
The future of the European industry is associated with a strong modelling capacity. An efficient modelling approach is needed to shorten the development process of materials-enabled products. This Review of Materials Modelling describes modelling of materials, their properties and use in industr...
This paper assesses the forecasting performance of various variable reduction and variable selection methods. A small and a large set of wisely chosen variables are used in forecasting the industrial production growth for four Euro Area economies. The results indicate that the Automatic Leading ...
This report describes the production of ERM®-EB074A, B and C, a pure copper material with low level of added impurities certified for the mass fractions of Ag, As, Au, Be, Bi, Cd, Co, Cr, Fe, In, Mg, Mn, Ni, P, Pb Sb, Se, Te, Ti and Zn. The material was produced following ISO Guide 34:2009 . A m...
European industry must increase its efforts to make metallurgical discoveries and modernise its production capabilities. New, more competitive and improved products must be invented based on innovative metallurgical processes. This roadmap identifies alternative technology paths for meeting cert...
