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Policy co-creation holds promises to increase citizens' trust in institutions and policy acceptance but no established approach has emerged yet. We propose a policy co-creation framework that leverages on complexity science and data science to involve both experts and stakeholders from the policy area, as well as the wider audience. Our iterative process consists of three stages: (i) identification of the main policy issues by a balanced expert group and launch of a non-technical stakeholder survey, (ii) analysis of stakeholders' positions towards the issues via a Policy Network Map, and (iii) assessing the public leaning towards the issues using text mining techniques on big data from the social media. The output from stage two and three feeds back into a new round of assessments until a target level of support is reached. At this point, the expert group can formulate its final recommendations that will be used by policy makers to prepare a first policy proposal. We illustrate the feasibility of the proposed workflow by means of use cases from on-going and previous work.

Although standard economics textbooks are seldom interested in production networks, modern economies are more and more based upon supplier/ customer interactions. One can consider entire sectors of the economy as generalised supply chains. We will take this view in the present paper and study under which conditions local failures to produce or simply to deliver can result in avalanches of shortage and bankruptcies and in localisation of the economic activity. We will show that a large class of models exhibit scale free distributions of production and wealth among firms and that regions of high production are localised.

The outbreak of COVID-19 and the containment measures are having an un-precedented socio-economic impact in the European Union (EU) and elsewhere. The policies introduced so far in the EU countries promote a 'business as usual' economic re-cover y. This short-term strategy may jeopardise the mid-to-long-term sustainability and financial stability objectives. In contrast, strengthening the socio-economic resilience against future pandemics, as well as other shocks, calls for recover y measures that are fully aligned to the objectives of the EU Green Deal and of the EU corporate taxation policy. Tackling these long-term objectives is not more costly than funding the current short-term measures. Remarkably, it may be the only way to build resilience to future crises.