Michiel Scheffer says overload is “problematic,” as he explains how the European Innovation Council will become more like a US-style ARPA
Michiel Scheffer, president of the European Innovation Council board. Photo credits: European Committee of the Regions / Flickr
Programme managers for the European Innovation Council (EIC), who are charged with envisioning technological breakthroughs and selecting funding teams that can make them happen, have to manage up to 300 projects each, the council’s president has said.
Michiel Scheffer said that the EIC’s ten programme managers oversee between 20 and 300 projects each, a ratio that could be “quite problematic.”
The EIC, the EU’s flagship innovation agency and start-up funder, has been charged with becoming more like a US Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the most famous being the defence-focused DARPA, which helped spawn numerous world-changing inventions,…
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