The benefit of fragmentation is the central idea of Scheidel’s Escape from Rome, published in 2019. The idea was not new. But ...

Earlier this month, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter ...

Bold industrial strategy must combine green transformation with social justice to secure Europe's economic future.

Europe is on the cusp of introducing virtual factories as a means to drive the next industrial revolution. With the aim of enhancing competitiveness in global markets, a research project funded by the ...

EU sets targets for material extracting, processing Currently heavy reliance on supply from China EU wants to produce 40% of equipment for 'net-zero' projects Industry says much work needs to be done ...

Every industrial revolution has a birthplace. The steam engine had Birmingham. The microchip had Silicon Valley. The circular ...

The European Commission has published a new document on the Green Deal Industrial Plan that EC President Ursula von der Leyen announced at Davos in mid-January. The European counterpart to the US ...

Near the end of the 18th century, the industrial revolution began to transform Great Britain. Machines replaced hand tools, factories sprouted up in cities and towns, and a sharp uptick in coal ...

Soot dating back to the start of the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century has been detected on the world's highest mountains—long before the first climbers ascended their peaks. The ...