In the confrontation between China and the United States, Europe is still trying to define its stance. While the political capacity and strategy of both Beijing and Washington to drive, transform and develop innovation, industry, green technologies and science is becoming clear, what is the EU doing? Does it have the right strategy and the necessary resources? 

— Philippe Aghion, Professor, Collège de France (Chair Institutions, Innovation, and Growth), Invited Professor at Harvard University and at the London School of Economics

— Francesca Ghiretti, Analyst, Brussels Office, Mercator Institute for China Studies

— Sarah Guillou, Director, Innovation & Competition Department, Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (OFCE), Sciences Po

— Marvin Suesse, Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and a Research Fellow at Lund University, Sweden