Current EU legislation does not distinguish innovative start-ups from the massed ranks of SMEs. A specific definition - and a specific strategy - is needed to back start-ups and help them to grow 

Two scale-ups at the nexus between academia and industry are helping EIT Digital revise its masters’ programmes and keep pace with the fast-moving fields of cybersecurity and robotics

With plenty of start-ups to choose from, CEE business angels are increasingly comfortable putting their money into deep-tech

A year in, countries have launched 169 actions in support of plan to make Europe a global deep tech innovation leader

UK companies can now get grants of up to €2.5M from the EIC Accelerator programme but are still excluded from its equity fund - and investments of up to €15M

As the EU’s 10-year graphene flagship project comes to an end, spin-offs and other start-ups in its orbit give their verdict on its achievements and look to maintaining momentum - as they search for continuing support

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs participants from Poland, Slovenia and Hungary learned much from their mentors. Now they want to see the EU work experience programme do more to help them make wider connections

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology is one of the few cogs in the innovation ecosystem to craft something useful from the EU’s nebulous New European Bauhaus initiative

The south-eastern Czech region and the city of Brno have spent the past 20 years building an innovation ecosystem and now hope to take this recognition of success further

$1.4B has been raised and 13 fusion start-ups have launched in the past year globally. But the industry now faces a valley of death as it tries to attract fresh money to build nuclear fusion prototypes