The Commission wants to speed up commercialisation of research results and support high-tech defence start-ups, draft plans show
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The European Commission will propose a series of measures to ensure more research results are translated into commercial success, according to a leaked draft of its forthcoming start-up and scale-up strategy, seen by Science|Business.
Brussels wants to inject more money into innovative companies by expanding the European Innovation Council (EIC), working with the European Investment Bank (EIB) on a new scale-up fund, and creating new instruments for innovative defence firms. But in addition to extra funding, the plans attempt to address the trickier question of how to make better use of the excellent research conducted across Europe.
In doing so, the draft strategy, which is not dated, aims to help innovators and investors to “Choose Europe,” in a nod to the EU’s
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