The bank wants to stimulate and strengthen capital markets in the Baltic states, beginning with new offices in Riga and Tallinn. The move is expected to increase access to scale-up funding for high tech start-ups

A one-stop-shop set up by EIT InnoEnergy aims to simplify access to EU public funding for start-ups and SMEs in the battery industry and act as a catalyst for private investment in the sector

Awarding the Women Innovators prize this week, research commissioner Iliana Ivanova unveiled a series of initiatives to encourage more women and girls to pursue research careers  

The European Parliament has approved the Artificial Intelligence Act, but there are increasing worries about the burden of compliance and how, along with a mix of other digital legislation, companies now have a ‘regulatory spaghetti bowl’ to untangle

The innovation programme for start-ups with dual-use technologies has announced a significant expansion of its network of accelerator sites and test centres

Strip away some of the risk attached to start-ups in Widening countries and the investment money should flow. Intermediaries such as incubators have an important role to play

New research shows how East Germany and other former Eastern bloc countries remain affected by the legacy of the command economy and the shock transition to capitalism

With a broader global downturn in start-up investment, the resilience and ‘ingrained frugality’ of central and eastern Europe could see the region prosper

It flows from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, crossing 14 countries with a wide range of research and innovation capabilities. Advocates of a Danube innovation valley are facing up to the scale of the east-west divide