On 1 January 2024, the Brussels School of Governance welcomed a third ERC project to its research portfolio, as Antonio Calcara joins our School and will work on the ERC project 'Competition in the Digital Era (CODE): Geopolitics and Technology in the 21st Century'.
CODE examines technological competition between China, the United States and Europe in three key sectors for contemporary economics and geopolitics: semiconductors, cloud computing and space. Theoretically, the project aims to integrate analytical tools from international relations, political economy and management and innovation to provide a comprehensive theory to explain the dynamics of competition for access to and control of critical technologies. Methodologically, the project aims to use qualitative and quantitative tools to measure technological competition, as well as markets and patent databases, which will then be analysed using network analysis and machine learning tools. Empirically, the project will focus on three of the most important sectors where technological competition is currently taking place: semiconductors, cloud computing and space technology.
CODE aims to build a multidisciplinary research group, ideally including researchers with quantitative and qualitative skills who are interested in technological and geopolitical competition. The project will run for five years, and will result in several academic workshops, publications and conferences. It has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No 101116328).
Third ERC project for BSoG
CODE is the third ERC project that is added to the BSoG's research portfolio, after Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez' Curiae Virides project on the progressive transformation of human rights litigation into more eco-centric litigation, and Luis Simón's ERC Consolidator Grant for his SINATRA project in which he examines European strategic autonomy in the light of Sino-American competition.
