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Editorial pieces on capital, leadership, geopolitics, security, and sovereign technology. Choose a topic, or browse the chronological record below.
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyAvoiding Foundation Model Vendor Lock-in: A Board Playbook
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
Avoiding Foundation Model Vendor Lock-in: A Board Playbook
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) explains how abstraction layers, open-source fallbacks and procurement discipline protect enterprises from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google pricing power.
Apr 20, 2026 · 9 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyEuropean AI Sovereignty: Why Europe Regulates but Doesn’t Own AI
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
European AI Sovereignty: Why Europe Regulates but Doesn’t Own AI
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on European AI sovereignty: capital asymmetry, the Brussels Effect, industrial domain data, and the decisions that must be made now.
Apr 20, 2026 · 9 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyEU AI Act Compliance for Companies: Board Guide
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
EU AI Act Compliance for Companies: Board Guide
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on EU AI Act compliance for companies: high-risk categories, audit duties, fines up to 7% of global revenue, board decisions due before 2026.
Apr 20, 2026 · 9 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyDeepfake Fraud & CEO Scam Defense: A Board Playbook
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
Deepfake Fraud & CEO Scam Defense: A Board Playbook
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on defending against deepfake fraud and CEO scams: governance, payment controls and board-level response for European companies.
Apr 20, 2026 · 9 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyBuild, Buy or Control: The Enterprise AI Decision
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
Build, Buy or Control: The Enterprise AI Decision
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on Build, Buy or Control for Enterprise AI: when to develop, license, or fine-tune, guided by data sensitivity and competitive edge.
Apr 20, 2026 · 10 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyAlgorithmic Discrimination & Legal Framework
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
Algorithmic Discrimination & Legal Framework
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on algorithmic discrimination and legal framework: why COMPAS, Amazon recruiting and proxy bias define compliance risk under the EU AI Act.
Apr 20, 2026 · 9 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyAI as Value Creation Lever in Private Equity
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
AI as Value Creation Lever in Private Equity
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) analyzes how systematic AI integration lifts EBITDA margins and exit multiples in private equity portfolios, with concrete ROI math.
Apr 20, 2026 · 11 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyAI Strategy for Industrial Mittelstand: The Data Moat
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
AI Strategy for Industrial Mittelstand: The Data Moat
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on how Europe’s industrial Mittelstand can build defensible AI products from decades of proprietary machine, sensor and process data.
Apr 20, 2026 · 9 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyAI Liability for Directors and Officers in Europe
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
AI Liability for Directors and Officers in Europe
How directors face personal liability under the EU AI Act, NIS2, and the AI Liability Directive. Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) maps the board’s new duty.
Apr 20, 2026 · 10 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyAI and the Future of Knowledge Work: Who Wins?
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
AI and the Future of Knowledge Work: Who Wins?
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on AI and the future of knowledge work: why high-skill professionals face the deepest disruption, and how to manage substitution and augmentation.
Apr 20, 2026 · 9 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyAI in Critical Infrastructure and NIS2: Board Duties
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
AI in Critical Infrastructure and NIS2: Board Duties
AI in Critical Infrastructure and NIS2: how data poisoning and adversarial attacks threaten KRITIS operators, and what Article 21 demands from boards.
Apr 20, 2026 · 9 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyAgentic AI Governance: Enterprise Authority and Risk
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
Agentic AI Governance: Enterprise Authority and Risk
Agentic AI executes actions autonomously. Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on the authority scopes, logging duties, and Human-in-the-Loop rules boards must install now.
Apr 20, 2026 · 9 min read
- Capital · Geopolitics · TechnologyDigital Sovereignty and Cloud Infrastructure in Europe
Capital · Geopolitics · Technology
Digital Sovereignty and Cloud Infrastructure in Europe
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) explains why digital sovereignty and cloud infrastructure are now the defining regulated investment thesis for European private equity.
Apr 20, 2026 · 10 min read