Face-to-face interactions are critical for the cross-fertilisation of ideas. Yet, the share of geographically distributed teams in scientific research has steadily risen since the 1960s and accelerated with the ICT revolution of the 1990s. This column explores how the rise of remote collaboration has shaped disruptive discoveries in science between 1961 and 2020. Remote
The EU implemented the General Data Protection Regulation in May 2018. This column examines its impact of it on firm performance. The findings show that companies exposed to the new regulation saw an 8% reduction in profits and a 2% decrease in sales. These adverse performance consequences were primarily borne by small and medium-sized enterprises. In contrast, there is no