Tuesday, June 4

Green industrial policy: Evaluating the case of hydrogen support in the EU

Explore the potential of green industrial policy!

By Centre for the Study of Governance & Society (KCL)

Date and time

Tuesday, June 4 · 6 - 7:30pm GMT+1

Location

Room 1.05, Bush House South East Wing, King's College London, 30 Aldwych

Bush House South East Wing, King's College London Room 1.05 London WC2B 4PJ United Kingdom

About this event

1 hour 30 minutes

In this talk, the speaker Christian Sandström will apply some of the learnings and insights from his book Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy (see below) to the topic of Green Deals. In particular, he will take a closer look at the hydrogen economy. Sandström will do so by both describing the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and the politics behind its current popularity.

Location:

Bush House Southeast Wing Room 1.05, King’s College London

About the Speaker:

Christian Sandström is Senior Associate Professor at Jönköping International Business School in Sweden. His research interests concern the interplay between policy, innovation and industrial transformation. Sandström is one of the co-editors behind the book Questioning the Entrepreneurial State (2022) that has been downloaded more than 219 000 times. His recent co-edited book Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy (Henrekson et al., 2024) explores the political economy of mission-oriented innovation policies. It can be downloaded for free here.

Sandström has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and ETH Zürich in Switzerland. In 2018, he received the Pedagogical prize for best teacher at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.

Organized by

Centre for the Study of Governance & Society (KCL)

Housed in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College, London, the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society (CSGS) examines how both formal and informal rules of governance operate and evolve, and how these rules facilitate or imperil peaceful, prosperous, and ecologically secure societies. The Centre supports research asking broad questions about social and political power and is especially interested in comparative research assessing the performance of alternative governance in ‘real world’ or ‘non-ideal’ conditions. The Centre convenes a regular research seminar, holds academic conferences and book events open to the public, and hosts seminars focused on questions relevant for policy-makers and a general audience.