EU-Asia relations: technological competition and trade policies in an era of regionalisation
30 September 2026 10:00 am CEST
Presenting the results of an Austrian National Bank Jubilee Fund project
Venue
Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw)
Rahlgasse 3
1060 Vienna
Souterrain, Seminar Room
Description
Event Time: 10:00 am – 12:30 pm (2.5 hours)
This research project was aimed to analyse various aspects of the evolving relationship between the EU and Asian economies (with focus on East and Southeast Asia; E-SE Asia). It was motivated by the increasing weight of E-SE Asian economies in the global economy and two main aspects which characterise current global economic developments: a tendency towards competing regional integration (‘regionalisation’) and fiercer technological competition. These two aspects have been explored in a number of interrelated research components of the project: research collaboration across firms within and across regions; changes in the positioning of EU and E-SE Asian countries in the functional specialisation of global value chains and their determinants; technology spillovers between eMNCs (multinationals from emerging E-SE Asian economies) and aMNC (multinationals from advanced economies) unto domestic EU companies; impacts of different designs of trade policies on trade structures in the context of industry-specific technology catching-up and (potential) leap-frogging; global and regional competition between regulatory standards.
The results from this research will be presented at this workshop and they are currently being published in a series of wiiw working papers. The research is timely in that it has been conducted within of the current context of changing orientations of industrial and trade policies at the global level and in the two regions specifically and we shall discuss these policy aspects in the course of this workshop.
This event takes place in the framework of the project 'EU-Asia relations: technological competition and trade policies in an era of regionalisation' which is financed by the Anniversary Fund of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Project No. 18833).
The support provided by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank for this research is gratefully acknowledged.
Following the presentations in this workshop there will also be the presentation of the recently released Asian Development Report of the Asian Development Bank by its Senior Economist Neil Foster-McGregor at 13:00-14:00. More information about this event can be found here. Prior to that coffee and refreshments will be served.
Please register for the two events.