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A working photonic chip is only part of the industrial challenge. Ahead of PIC Summit Europe 2026, Altair Media Europe examines five questions about reliable production, customer adoption, financing and European control—and the evidence needed to turn technical progress into lasting commercial value.
The Dutch budget is moving, but every concession raises a new question about funding. With social security savings deferred and the box 3 proposal under revision, can separate parliamentary bargains become one durable financial settlement?
ABP’s €250 million commitment adds Dutch pension capital to the Scaleup Europe Fund. As EQT raises money and invests alongside companies such as Samsung, the distinction between financing the fund and joining individual rounds becomes strategically important.
The Dutch budget talks are moving, but an agreement requires more than exchanged concessions. This Signal asks whether coalition and opposition can protect their mandates, share responsibility for the whole budget and make choices that endure beyond the next vote.
The Netherlands’ 2027 budget promises investment in the future while a minority government negotiates support in the present. As reforms are delayed and spending rises, the central question is who will ultimately pay for the choices postponed today.
Modern warfare increasingly depends on an invisible digital layer connecting sensors, drones, cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence and command systems. The Digital Battlefield examines why control over software, data and interoperability is becoming a fundamental question of European military sovereignty.
Europe’s fruit industry made seasonal harvests predictable through processing, formulation, branding and distribution. As climate risk grows and ownership consolidates, its future depends on preserving the orchards, knowledge and productive capacity beneath that carefully engineered consistency.
Europe’s deep-tech challenge is no longer only about creating start-ups. It is increasingly about building a financial flywheel in which public capital de-risks early growth, private investors follow, and successful scale-ups generate the returns needed to finance the next generation.
Europe needs to channel more than €10 trillion into its energy system by 2040. The real challenge is no longer only technological capacity, but whether Europe’s fragmented financial architecture can turn savings into grids, generation, storage and resilience.
MOM Group transformed compote by removing the bowl, spoon and fixed eating occasion. Through Pom’Potes and GoGo squeeZ, the pouch turned familiar fruit purée into a shelf-stable, portable snack capable of travelling across markets.
