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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BMW plans billions in savings with AI-based business model The Munich-based carmaker wants to be an “AI-orchestrated company” from 2028. What this means is evident in the shopping. In the future, autonomous agents will work there. Source: www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/...
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Autobauer: BMW plant mit KI-basiertem Geschäftsmodell Milliardeneinsparungen
Der Münchener Autobauer BMW will ab 2028 ein „KI-orchestriertes Unternehmen“ sein. Was das bedeutet, zeigt sich im Einkauf. Dort arbeiten künftig autonome Agenten.
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
EU farm subsidies fall to lowest share of farm incomes in quarter of a century www.farmersjournal.ie/news/news/eu...
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EU farm subsidies fall to lowest share of farm incomes in quarter of a century
In 2022, a year marked by historically high milk prices in Ireland, EU payments accounted for just 41% of farm incomes; the share has now dropped below 40%.
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇲🇹 Malta signs a Trip.com partnership to attract more Asian tourists and strengthen year-round tourism. The aim is to diversify visitor markets, supporting local businesses beyond the summer season. businessnow.mt/malta-looks-... #EU #Tourism #Malta
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇸🇪 Swedish research could help Europe reduce farming costs and pollution. Kernza regrows after harvest, potentially reducing inputs while protecting soils and waterways. www.slu.se/en/research/...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇨🇳 EU–China trade breakthrough: 🚗 Hybrid export moderation 💶 €225m in potential tariff savings ⚙️ Progress on rare earth licensing Preliminary understanding; implementation pending. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 US and German workers start from very different legal positions. Most US employment is at-will. In Germany, covered workers generally need a socially justified reason for dismissal. #EU #Germany #Labour youtu.be/xe3jPDQGSww?...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇬🇷 Greece says support is growing for more EU fiscal room to tackle high energy prices. The proposal would support temporary, targeted relief — but no EU-wide deal exists yet. #EU #Greece #Energy www.naftemporiki.gr/finance/econ...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇪🇺 The EU has selected 46 new Strategic Projects for critical raw materials. 16 member states. 15 of 17 strategic materials. ~€21.1bn investment required. #EU #CriticalRawMaterials #Mining www.miningweekly.com/article/euro...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇫🇮 Finnish KHOY vacuum-packs sofa beds into parcel-sized boxes for European delivery. 2025 revenue: €4.3m Exports: >80% 2026: expected to more than double revenue. #EU #Finland #KHOY www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/a/9c...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇮🇪 EU finance ministers agree a key capital-markets reform. Goal: reduce fragmentation and unlock more of Europe’s €10tn in household savings for investment. #EU #Ireland #CapitalMarkets www.rte.ie/news/europe/...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇮🇹 Italy has confirmed telecom customers’ right to reach a human operator. AGCOM rules require an average response time of no more than 150 seconds. #EU #Italy #Telecommunications #LaRepubblica www.repubblica.it/economia/202...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇱🇻 Latvia’s new-company registrations rose 8.3% in the first nine months of 2026. September set a 10-year record: 1,118 new firms. #EU #Latvia #Business #DienasBizness db.lv/zinas/latvij...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇫🇷 🇯🇵 Kagan and Soai win the 2026 Chemistry Nobel for work that helped chemists control molecular mirror images — crucial to modern drugmaking. #EU #France #Chemistry #NobelPrize phys.org/news/2026-10...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇮🇹 Giorgia Meloni has filed a 4-second EU sound-mark application aimed at strengthening protection against AI voice cloning. It is still under examination. #EU #Italy #EUIPO #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hCl...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🇪🇺 The EU’s three global top-10 startup ecosystems are worth $769.2B combined. 🇸🇪 Sweden #6 🇩🇪 Germany #7 🇳🇱 Netherlands #10 Add France at #11 and the total reaches about $1.139T. #EU #Startups #Innovation #StartupBlink www.startupblink.com/blog/the-bes...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 France and Germany want EU action against unfair trade. Macron and Merz propose stronger tools to reduce supplier dependencies and, in exceptional cases, let the Commission restrict single-market access more quickly. #EU #Germany #France #Trade #SingleMarket www.dw.com/en/merz-macr...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇪🇸 Spain awards the maximum critical-minerals grant to Osmond Resources’ Orión project. The project targets rare earths, titanium and zirconium and is being advanced as a potential first EU domestic rare-earths mine. #EU #Spain #RareEarths #MiningWeekly www.miningweekly.com/article/osmo...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇩🇪 Germany’s planqc wins the Made in Europe Award for quantum computing. Next: a 100-qubit system for DLR and a 1,000-qubit system for LRZ, both due in 2027. #EU #Germany #planqc #QuantumComputing thequantuminsider.com/2026/10/05/m...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇸🇪 Sweden lands the NATO Innovation Fund’s first direct investment in the country. KTH spinout TERASi has raised €11m for secure tactical communications. #EU #Sweden #TERASi #DefenceTech kistasciencecity.com/nato-innovat...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇨🇳 The richest 10% own about 76% of global wealth. The poorest half owns around 2%. Economic growth and broadly shared prosperity are not the same thing. #EU #Wealth #Inequality #WION www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I10...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇩🇪 Germany’s new 365m wind turbine is the tallest in the world. Its 300m hub is designed to reach stronger, steadier winds and potentially more than double energy yield. #EU #Germany #WindEnergy #InterestingEngineering interestingengineering.com/energy/world...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🇪🇺 Piketty’s Global Justice Project models a very different 2100: €5,000 monthly income per person globally, far lower wealth inequality and roughly half today’s annual working hours. A scenario — not a forecast. #EU #Economics #Piketty #ElPais elpais.com/economia/neg...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
he Greenland deal gives the U.S. more military access — but not sovereignty. CSIS argues the bigger legacy may be Europe’s faster push toward strategic autonomy and reduced dependence on Washington. #EU #Greenland #Denmark #CSIS www.csis.org/analysis/tru...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🇪🇺 The EU wants more public support to translate into European production. Dacia Spring assembly has already moved from China to Slovenia. #EU #Renault #Manufacturing #LeMonde www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🇩🇪 Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri-1: 78B total parameters, 3.46B active per token and up to 1M-token context. Open weights. Apache 2.0. #EU #Germany #AI #Golem www.golem.de/news/78-mill...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🇫🇷 Renault plans €10bn+ of new investment in France. The company also expects French vehicle production to rise at least 25% in 2026 as EV output grows. #EU #France #Renault #Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🇩🇪 Germany is building new deep-tech capacity in humanoid robotics and next-generation chips. #NEURARobotics and #BlackSemiconductor are moving from research toward industrial scale. #EU #Germany #DeepTech #DWDocumentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpMT...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🇧🇬 Bulgaria’s main stock index is back above 1,500 for the first time since 2008. SOFIX is up 30% in 2026. #EU #Bulgaria #SOFIX #BTA www.bta.bg/en/news/econ...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🇦🇹 Austria is betting on North African green hydrogen for heavy industry. The proposed 3,300 km SoutH2 corridor would reuse existing gas infrastructure to connect Algeria and Tunisia with Europe. #EU #Austria #Hydrogen #DERSTANDARD www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🇪🇺 Europe’s launch strategy is shifting. Ariane 6 secures independent access to space today; reusable Maia is being developed to cut costs and improve competitiveness. #EU #Ariane6 #MaiaSpace #Kauppalehti www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/a/1c...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🇩🇰 Around 20,000 Danish homeowners are affected by property-tax errors. The Ombudsman has now opened a wider investigation into the tax administration. #EU #Denmark #PropertyTax #DRNyheder www.dr.dk/nyheder/peng...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🇪🇺 Novartis bets up to $7.8bn on Chinese RNA biotech. The deal gives it worldwide rights to Abogen’s mRNA-based autoimmune programme ABO2203. #Novartis #Abogen #Biotech #15min www.15min.lt/verslas/nauj...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A 160-year-old Bulgarian rail factory has been reborn as a modern industrial hub. Investment: €60m+ Companies: 7 Workers: 210+ #EU #Bulgaria #Rail #BTA www.bta.bg/en/news/econ...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🇪🇺 Draghi wants the EU to commit €100bn to AI infrastructure. The aim: raise Europe’s global AI-compute share from under 5% to ~15% by 2030 and unlock a much larger €1.3tn investment wave. #EU #AI #Investment #MarioDraghi #IlSole24Ore www.ilsole24ore.com/art/draghi-l...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🇨🇾 Cyprus created 9,152 businesses in 2024 against 5,566 closures. Its enterprise death rate was only 5.9%, well below the EU’s 9.2%. #EU #Cyprus #Entrepreneurship #CyprusMail cyprus-mail.com/2026/10/02/o...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🇪🇺 Euro-zone manufacturing just hit its strongest level in more than four years. PMI: 52.9 Output: 55-month high Exports: 4½-year high #EU #Manufacturing #Reuters www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🇮🇪 Stripe is creating 200 more jobs in Dublin. Its Irish workforce is already up 35%+ this year to more than 1,000 people. #EU #Ireland #Stripe #RTEBusiness www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...
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Stripe announces plans to create 200 jobs in Dublin
Irish-founded financial technology company Stripe has announced plans to create a further 200 new jobs at its Dublin headquarters.
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇪🇺 ICEYE + Nokia are developing sovereign satellite communications for European governments. First launches: 2028. Potential production: up to 50 satellites/year. #EU #ICEYE #Nokia #BankierPL www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/Eu...
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Europa szykuje ripostę na Starlinka. Polski Iceye i Nokia stworzą nową sieć satelitarną
Iceye oraz Nokia łączą siły, aby stworzyć bezpieczne systemy komunikacji satelitarnej dla europejskiego sektora obronnego. Inicjatywa wpisuje się w rosnącą na Starym Kontynencie potrzebę budowy suwere...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇳🇱 Dutch museums attract 31.6m visits as Europe’s cultural economy keeps growing Museums in the Netherlands recorded 31.6 million visits in 2025, up 2.5% year-on-year #EU #Netherlands #Museums #Culture #Tourism #CreativeEconomy #DutchNews www.dutchnews.nl/2026/10/dutc...
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Dutch museum visits rose to over 30m last year - DutchNews.nl
More than 30 million people visited a museum in the Netherlands in 2025, a 2.5% increase over the year prior, according to trade association Museumvereniging. Dutch museums welcomed 31.6 million visit...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇵🇱 Poland proposes tax cuts for 3.5m taxpayers as 2027 budget targets 3% growth Poland’s government has adopted its 2027 budget draft, including PIT changes expected to benefit about 3.5 million taxpayers. #EU #Poland #Budget #Tax #Growth #PublicFinance #TVPWorld tvpworld.com/95650800/pol...
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Poland’s draft 2027 budget puts growth at 3%
The government’s strategy also foresees 3% GDP growth for Poland next year.
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇮🇹 Europe loves pasta and still accounts for about half of the €14.6bn global dry-pasta market. European volumes are growing again, while Italian brands hold ~25% of the market outside Italy. #EU #Italy #Pasta #FoodIndustry #LaRepubblica www.repubblica.it/economia/rap...
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A Roma il World Durum and Pasta Forum: dal Canada alla Turchia, i nuovi equilibri del grano duro
L’Europa si conferma il principale mercato per la pasta secca, rappresentando circa la metà del totale e mostrando un ritorno alla crescita anche sul fronte de…
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇵🇱 Poland is no longer among Europe’s hottest housing markets. Q2 2026: new homes +6.5% y/y, resale +6.1% — with price growth clearly cooling. #EU #Poland #Housing #BankierPL www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/No...
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Koniec cenowego szaleństwa nad Wisłą? Tak polskie mieszkania wypadają na tle Europy
Polska pozostaje w środku stawki pod względem wzrostów cen mieszkań w Unii Europejskiej – wynika z najnowszych danych Eurostatu za II kw. 2026 r. Choć stawki nad Wisłą wciąż zwyżkują, to pocieszeniem ...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇫🇮 EU cloud policy could give Oulu’s data-centre boom another boost. The proposed rules favour locations with strong electricity grids, clean power and efficient heat reuse. #EU #Finland #Oulu #Kauppalehti www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/a/1f...
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Kauppalehti
Tärkeimmät ajankohtaiset talousuutiset, pörssikurssit ja kattavat sijoittajapalvelut löydät Kauppalehdestä.
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇫🇮 EU cloud policy could give Oulu’s data-centre boom another boost. The proposed rules favour locations with strong electricity grids, clean power and efficient heat reuse. #EU #Finland #Oulu #Kauppalehti www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/a/1f...
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Kauppalehti
Tärkeimmät ajankohtaiset talousuutiset, pörssikurssit ja kattavat sijoittajapalvelut löydät Kauppalehdestä.
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇭🇷 Croatia opens €25m in investment support for meat producers. The funding is part of a wider €90m programme to modernise primary agriculture. #EU #Croatia #Agriculture #PoslovniDnevnik www.poslovni.hr/hrvatska/od-...
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Od 1. listopada kreće utrka za 25 milijuna eura: Poznato tko se može javiti
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇧🇪 Belgium’s Big Four are hiring fewer recent graduates as AI changes consulting work. Experienced profiles are becoming more valuable as routine junior tasks are increasingly automated. #EU #Belgium #AI #DeTijd www.tijd.be/r/t/1/id/106...
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Consultants in België mikken door AI minder op schoolverlaters
De grootste vier audit- en consultancybedrijven van het land zien hun personeelsbestand krimpen door het troebele economische klimaat en de opmars van AI. Bovendien leidt de AI-revolutie ertoe dat con...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇦🇹 Energy AG is investing >€60m in the Sandl wind project. The 137 MW development is expected to generate >315 GWh/year — enough for 100,000+ households. #EU #Austria #WindEnergy #DERSTANDARD www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Energie AG Oberösterreich investiert Millionen in den Windpark Sandl
Der Energiekonzern übernimmt 30 Prozent der mehr als 200 Mio. Euro Investitionskosten. Es handelt sich um das größte Windparkprojekt Oberösterreichs
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇧🇬 Bulgaria holds 37th in global innovation, but its infrastructure ranking jumped to 10th worldwide. Innovation outputs improved to 28th. #EU #Bulgaria #Innovation #BTA www.bta.bg/en/news/econ...
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Bulgaria Ranks Second in the Balkans in WIPO's 2026 Global Innovation Index
Bulgaria has retained its position in the 2026 edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII), prepared by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized agency of the United Nations...
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EU ECONOMICS @eueconomics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🇱🇹 Lithuania climbs to a record 32nd in the Global Innovation Index Lithuania has risen one place to 32nd in WIPO’s 2026 Global Innovation Index, its highest position yet. #EU #Lithuania #Innovation #Startups #Technology #Baltics #VersloZinios www.vz.lt/inovacijos/2...
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Pasauliniame inovacijų indekse Lietuva pakilo vienu laipteliu, pirmauja pagal vienaragių vertę - Verslo žinios
Lietuva šiemet Pasauliniame inovacijų indekse (angl. Global Innovation Index, GII) pakilo vienu laipteliu ir užėmė 32 vietą pasaulyje. Tai aukščiausia šalies vieta šiame reitinge iki šiol.
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