“Fostering Innovation. Unlocking Potential.” In presenting the Reinhard Mohn Prize 2020 to Nechemia (“Chemi”) J. Peres, the Bertelsmann Stiftung recognizes his outstanding commitment to promoting innovation.

The global economy is experiencing a period of rapid upheaval. Technological advances and growing rivalries between the world’s economic superpowers are intensifying geostrategic competition. The United States, China, Europe and other ambitious players must align their...

Innovation is essential to economic and technological competitiveness, and to solving the major problems we face as a society. Our agenda for the future offers actionable recommendations for creating a modern innovation policy designed to achieve societally relevant goals.

Pointing the way forward, startups are drivers of change. Entrepreneurs in the high-tech sector with an eye for societally relevant business ideas need facilitative environments that encourage growth. Our global research has delivered examples of successful efforts to...

Disruptive innovations hold great potential for strengthening competitiveness and the capacity to successfully address societal challenges. Our global research has delivered several examples of successful efforts to promote disruptive innovations in the United States, Israel...

Networking and exchange are important drivers of innovation. Our global research has delivered a variety of good practices in successful mission-oriented cluster concepts, matching solutions and cooperative infrastructures from the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada...

Modern innovation policies should target in equal measure both economic competitiveness and societal progress. Our global research has delivered a variety of good practices in developing successful innovation policy strategies and governance instruments from the Netherlands,...

With the global race for tech dominance and digital sovereignty set to intensify, we look at what the European Union is doing to strengthen its fledgling but ambitious startup sector. We find that despite bold and proactive new steps, the creation of European unicorns will...

The demand for digital skills has increased markedly in recent years, even in industries and occupations in which digitalization previously played only a limited role. That is one of the findings from an innovative data analysis that evaluated 26 million online job postings...

The coronavirus crisis and its continuing effects on European economies has propelled the debate about crisis resistance and resilience firmly back onto the EU agenda. This policy brief sheds light on the degree of resilience within EU regions prior to the outbreak of...