How China’s rise has shaped innovation and exit among European solar firms

Should policymakers protect European firms by restricting imports of solar technology from China? Pia Andres finds that Chinese competition has resulted in many European firms going out of business, but it has also prompted more intense innovative activity among some of those that have survived.

Pia Andres

20 February 2025     Paper Number CEPCP694

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This work is published under POID and the CEP's Growth programme.

This publication comes under the following CEP theme: New technologies and productivity