Innovation in the news January 16, 2025
Today’s top stories
Global Risks Report 2025 (World Economic Forum)
Government Support in the Solar and Wind Value Chains (OECD)
A Fair Net-Zero Transition - Labour Market Policies to Meet Climate Targets (OECD)
Industrial policy through the CHIPS and Science Act: A preliminary report (The Peterson Institute for International Economics)
The Draft Order that Offshore Wind Opponents Sent to Trump (Heatmap)
🍁 Academic Deep Tech Investment Funds in the UK - Most Russell Group universities have or are establishing an associated early-stage investment fund - this is an idea I have looked at for a few years and so am glad to see Kyle giving it some prominence (CanInnovate)
🍁 Canada’s auto sector is bracing for Trump’s tariff war (The Logic, $$$)
🍁 Jim Balsillie: We are all economic nationalists now - Those of us who have been saying for years that Canada needs to equip domestic firms to compete in the knowledge economy have been proven right (National Post)
Debunking high-skilled immigration myths (or, why stapling green cards to diplomas is a bad idea) (Economic Innovation Group)
Trump's Team of Economic Yes-Men - Or, why he still has no plan (Krugman wonks out on Substack)
Despite tensions, US-China AI research collaborations are alive and well (Rest of World)
TikTok is just the beginning - The free world is being tested, and bigger battles lie ahead (Noahpinion)
The intersection between climate transition policies and geoeconomic fragmentation (European Central Bank)
The great social media migration: Sudden influx of US users to RedNote connects Chinese and Americans like never before (CNN)
State of Fintech 2024 Report (CB Insights)
How is climate change impacting home insurance markets? (Brookings)