In the face of frantic international competition, economic intelligence is proving to be a first-rate strategic tool for defending a country’s interests. Yet the Senate’s Economic Affairs Committee points to a glaring shortfall in this area. Almost 30 years after the first report devoted to the subject, “almost all the findings made” still hold true. The senators are therefore calling for “genuine cultural and organisational changes to make economic intelligence a common practice shared at every level”.
The main aim of economic intelligence is to be on “alert” in order to defend the strategic interests of a state, a company, a region or a research institution, and to improve their competitiveness...
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