The European Tech
Sovereignty Institute
Ending Europe's strategic dependencies in artificial intelligence, compute, cloud and critical digital infrastructure.
Mission
How law shapes the conditions of European technological capacity
Technological capacity depends on capital, talent, energy, infrastructure, integrated markets and effective public action. As a legal research institute, we focus on a decisive but often underestimated part of that equation: how law shapes the conditions in which European technologies and firms can emerge, scale and endure.
Over the past two decades, law has become one of Europe's principal instruments of technology policy. The Institute examines whether this legal strategy can help build genuine technological capacity — or merely govern Europe's continuing dependence on technologies developed elsewhere.
Site architecture
Home plus six sections
Every part of the Institute's work is designed to answer one question: does European law strengthen Europe's technological sovereignty?
The Institute
Mission, method and positioning of an independent legal research institute.
Explore →Fundamental Questions
The three questions defining Europe's technological sovereignty agenda.
Explore →Research
Framework, theory of systemic coherence, programmes and observatory.
Explore →Academy
Executive education on European technology law and sovereignty.
Explore →Publications & Events
Flagship reports, policy briefs, working papers and the annual conference.
Explore →People & Partners
Academic Director, Fellows, Scientific Council and institutional partners.
Explore →A guiding concept
Strategic Asymmetry
Europe will not achieve technological sovereignty by copying the leaders. It will achieve it by identifying and exploiting its own asymmetries — in talent, data, energy, open models and distributed infrastructure.
"Regulatory power does not necessarily translate into technological power."
— The Institute's central research question