The research programmes¶

The lab's work runs in six programmes, each a continuing line of enquiry with its own object, its own method, and its own papers. Three wings organise them: what Europe holds and what the mechanisms do to it, the economics of open source, and the instruments that score any of it. Alongside the wings sit two strands that are genres rather than programmes: the migration guides, the practitioner reference the others feed, and the policy papers, filings and briefs addressed to a live policy process.

Each programme page describes what the programme is trying to establish and lists its output, with a link to every paper's own page. The complete corpus, sortable and searchable, is in the paper catalog; the flat list of papers with the dependency graph between them is on the papers.

The EuroStack wing¶

Path Sovereignty: measurement and theory · five papers. What Europe actually holds: a sourced dependency graph of the compute stack, the calculus of coercion and diversification that runs on it, the taxonomy of channels through which one node moves another, the registry of how European technology firms change hands, and the methods companion on what an official dependency index identifies.

Game theory: the mechanisms · six papers. What the policy instruments do when the actors respond: procurement screens against a supplier that can fake compliance, portability mandates beside ownership screens, the layered market that defeats subsidy, the asymmetry between Europe's two screening episodes, the component with no budget line, and what a co-funding ratio identifies.

The instruments wing¶

Cloud architecture: the services matrix · one paper. Where lock-in is created, service by service: architectural coupling and an auditable exit tax, two-coder reconciled across thirty-five AWS services.

The Open Internet Stack: the build criterion · one paper. What Europe should build and in what order, scoring the building blocks on the measured graph composed with sourced market economics under a rule frozen before computation.

Sovereignty contribution: the system-level reading · two papers. What makes the sovereignty of the whole ecosystem move, and what sign a given policy or organisation contributes to it: a causal factor map of twenty-two factors with an evidence tier on every edge, and the criterion that scores a contribution against a stated counterfactual where every deployed instrument scores a node instead.

The OSS-economics wing¶

The economics of open source · four papers. Both sides of the market: who adopts open source and what decides it, whether buyers will pool demand to fund the flow, how the firms around the code capture value, and the methods companion proving which cross-segment comparisons identify the structure.

Two genres beside the wings¶

The migration guides · two volumes. The practitioner reference: running an organisation's collaboration stack on open source, the back end first and the workstation second, with exit cost rather than licence cost as the object.

Policy papers · filings, positions and briefs addressed to a live policy process, each written to an occasion rather than to a research question, and each drawing on whichever programmes the occasion needs.