Dietmar Harhoff

Rafael Laguna de la Vera, founding director of SPRIND and a serial entrepreneur, joins forces with Dietmar Harhoff, an innovation policy expert and former director at the Max Planck Institute. They dive into Europe’s urgent quest for digital sovereignty, unpacking key dependencies and choke points in the tech landscape. The duo discusses how digital capabilities drive economic growth, the causes behind Europe's lag in digital engineering, and the importance of agile policies for resilience. Their insights provide a thought-provoking look at the European tech renaissance.