A new proposal from the European Investment Fund seeks to accelerate the success of European technology transfer projects. A noble idea, says Mary Lisbeth D'Amico in her fortnightly column, but no one has yet stepped up to foot the bill.
For her latest fortnightly funding column, Mary Lisbeth D'Amico set out to find European seed funders. That was as easy as finding a needle in a haystack.
One of Europe’s biggest research organisations, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in Germany, is pushing to close its first venture fund to finance spin-off companies from the institute.
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