London Politica: Volume II: EU, UK, and US Industrial Policy in Comparison

VOLUME 2: Technology and Innovation

Transnational collaboration in critical industrial sectors has quietly become one of the most controversial issues of our time. Few other policy decisions have so much potential for competitive advantage or create so much strategic vulnerability. The norms which have enabled decades of this type of collaboration between the US, UK and EU have been repeatedly shattered, first by Brexit, then by shifts in US policy which would once have been unimaginable.1 These three entities have a shared interest in maintaining a technological edge over authoritarian competitors, and would be vastly more successful in meeting their national objectives through combined efforts, but collaboration requires trust — an increasingly scarce resource which cannot be quickly obtained.

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