CIMR debates in Public Policy - Catching Up in the Digital Age: Capabilities, Governance, and Industrial Policy in Transitional Europe

A CIMR Debates in Public Policy talk on how latecomer economies in transitional Europe can catch up digitally, drawing on Prof. Fadil Sahiti's book 'Catching Up in the Digital Age: Capabilities, Governance, and Industrial Policy in Transitional Europe'. It is hosted by Birkbeck's Centre for Innovation Management Research, with a welcome and chairing by Prof. Helen Lawton Smith and speakers Prof. Slavo Radosevic, Prof. Rainer Kattel, and Dr. Nahed Ahmed. The debate examines how capability building, governance, and industrial policy can drive sustainable economic transformation, with focus on the Western Balkans including Kosovo, Albania, and North Macedonia, and introduces the book's concept of the Developmental Network State.