Innovation

As Europe rethinks innovation funding, an audit of past spending highlights gaps in bringing research to market and knowing what works.

While EU AI adoption rose from 8% to 20% by 2025, a new JRC report reveals deep integration lags, hindered by persistent skill gaps and regulatory uncertainty.

Three reports ask where Europe can build technological strength, how funding needs to change and where international openness may face limits.

Ahead of the upcoming EU Biotech Act, recent studies and reports analyse funding realities for biotechnology to inform future life-science policy.

R&D Procurement and IP Commercialisation emerge as key enablers under the EU Innovation Act, though stricter EU Preference provisions are being proposed.

A new report challenges Europe’s startup-drain narrative, showing that most relocating ventures maintain substantial operations in their home countries.

Switzerland tops the Innovation Scoreboard 2026 for the ninth year, proving its long-standing innovation culture and strength beyond the football pitch.

The EIC Summit 2026 unveiled bold steps for Europe’s innovation landscape, including the Scaleup Europe Fund and key insights from the EIC Impact Report.

US hyperscalers control 70% of Europe’s cloud market, and the EU presents a potential remedy set to achieve greater strategic autonomy in Chips, Cloud, and AI.

Europe spends just over 10% of public procurement on innovation, far below the 20% needed to fully leverage this powerful policy tool.