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Policy Paper
Published on

June 30, 2026

Collaborative Industrial Policy: Mapping The Future Of Industrial Action

  • Fragmentation has limits: Go-it-alone industrial policy drives duplication, higher costs, weaker innovation, and widening global gaps.
  • A third way exists: Collaborative Industrial Policy enables countries to co-design capabilities, share scale, and compete within agreed guardrails.
  • Practical and measurable: CIP delivers economic synergies, resilience, and inclusion through concrete mechanisms, shared standards, talent mobility, blended finance, and distributed production.

Industrial policy has shifted from open globalization to defensive, fragmented market-shaping, raising costs and risks, especially for smaller economies. Collaborative Industrial Policy offers a third way: managed interdependence that pools scale, builds resilience, accelerates innovation, and shares gains more broadly while avoiding zero-sum protectionism.

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