Chips Act: supply chain monitoring versus value chain mapping

 

Julia Hess and Jan-Peter Kleinhans, Technology and Geopolitics experts at the German Think Tank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, share their assessment of the Chips Act as it is proposed and explain what they would change, particularly in pillar three. Instead of supply chain monitoring, they suggest that governments should perform value chain mapping and leave the former to the industry. (...)