R&D R&D is not innovation AI has made experimentation easier. The distinction between research and innovation helps us see whether an organisation is creating new knowledge or putting a significant change into use.
AI Strategy Employee stock options: a small instrument with a larger economic purpose How the Netherlands is changing the taxation of employee ownership, and what that reveals about innovation, capital and competitiveness.
AI Strategy Kolibri and Europe’s Emerging Industrial AI Ecosystem Aleph Alpha’s new open-weight model is interesting not because Europe has produced another chatbot, but because of what is becoming visible around it: research capability, industrial capital, cloud infrastructure and decades of accumulated knowledge.
R&D R&D was there all along I had been writing about how knowledge becomes technology for a year without quite naming the activity at the heart of it. Then I went back to R&D.
Europe I haven’t changed my values. I am changing my mind As the foundations of European prosperity become less secure, growth takes on a different meaning. My priorities are moving because the things I value still matter.
R&D How We Organise Innovation Behind innovation sits a landscape of institutions. I began by trying to map them. Over time, I found the more revealing question was not where each one belongs, but what moves between them, and which routes are open depending on where you stand.
Europe Europe can invent. But can it buy what it invents? The European Commission’s procurement proposal made me reconsider a quieter part of Europe’s innovation problem: whether public organisations can buy something unfamiliar.
Sovereignty Apertus and the Messy Case for AI Sovereignty A Swiss AI initiative looks like a model of technological sovereignty. The Dutch alternative looks far messier. That may not be a weakness.
Europe From lab to fab needs more than a fund Europe does not merely lack capital. It lacks the institutional machinery for turning research, young companies and industrial ambition into scale.
AI Strategy Is there really one AI economy? Over the past few weeks I've found myself reading widely differing takes on AI. Some see the biggest speculative bubble in history. Others see the foundations of a new industrial era. Perhaps they're simply looking at different parts of the same landscape.
Quantum Computing Quantum computing is more than qubits A Dutch quantum computer just reached its first customer, not for its power to solve problems yet, but to learn what building on this new kind of computer means.
Sovereignty Compute Is the Entry Ticket, Not the Game Compute is necessary but not sufficient. A LinkedIn debate sharpened an argument about European AI infrastructure into a longer chain: energy to demand.
