07 Jun 2018
7-8 June 2018, The Enterprise Centre, UEA
On the 7-8 June, we hosted our 14th Annual Conference on 'Competition Policy and Industrial Policy: Is there a need for a new balance?', again at the Enterprise Centre on the UEA campus.
This year's conference brought insights from legal, political science and economic perspectives and debated a broad range of topics concerning the tensions between competition policy practice and new goals for industrial policy, whilst offering ideas on how we can rebalance policy goals and design the competition regime of the future.
With a keynote speech from Gert Jan Koopman from the European Commission, the programme delved into the challenges we now face and included contributions from leading academics, policymakers and consultancies.
A full review of the conference can be found on our .
Programme, asbtracts and speaker biographies can be found in the full Conference Brochure.
PRESENTATIONS (Download available via presentation titles)
Keynote Speaker | Gert Jan Koopman, European Commission: 'Competition Enforcement, Competitiveness and Industrial Policy'
Session 2 | Shaping the Data Economy: Using legal rules for industrial policy
Sabine Jacques, UEA Law School & CCP: 'Non-personal Data Mobility in the EU: Is a new right necessaary to protect industrial data? (not available for download)
Karen Mc Cullagh, UEA Law School: 'The UK's post-Brexit Data Economy: Personal data matters'
Howard Shelanski, Georgetown University, Washington DC: 'Innovation and Regulatory Design' (no slides)
Session 3 | Directed Technological Change and the Energy Sector
Ralf Martin, Imperial College London: 'Clean Technologies, Growth and Competition'
Justus Harcup, DICE, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf: 'Directed Technological Change and Energy Policy: The German Experience'
Eugenio Miravete, School of Economics, UEA & CCP: 'Protection Effects of Environmental Policy'
Session 4 | New Industrial Strategy and Industry 4.0
Tony Curzon-Price, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: 'Market Design is Ex Ante Competition Policy for Industrial Strategy'
Hans Friederiszick, E.CA Economics: '"America has the internet, we have the things" - The German way of regulating digital platforms'
Session 5 | Supporting Industries - How have we done?
Carlo Scarpa, University of Brescia: 'State Aid to the Car Industry - the EU approach'
Tuomas Takalo, Bank of Finland: 'Welfare Effects of R&D Support Policies'
Session 6 | Panel: The Future of State Aid
Simon Coward, Hethel Innovation
Bruce Lyons, School of Economics, UEA & CCP
Sheldon Mills, Competition and Markets Authority
Jenny Sugiarto, KPMG
An overview of this session can be found on the
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