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A mobile standard is not merely a neutral technical agreement. It is where research, institutional consensus and patented inventions become shared infrastructure. Ericsson’s influence lies deep inside this process, helping shape the grammar of global communication.
Who is shaping Europe’s future? This series examines the people whose ideas, decisions and institutional power are redefining the continent’s political, financial and technological architecture—and the tensions their visions create as ambition meets the limits of execution.
Europe’s food future increasingly depends on science. Through Wageningen University & Research, this Perspective explores how biology, technology, data and applied research are converging — and why universities are becoming an integral part of Europe’s food system.
Europe’s electricity networks are becoming the backbone of its industrial future. But while power increasingly moves across borders, planning, investment and regulation remain predominantly national. Europe’s central challenge is making the governance of its energy system as interconnected as the grid itself.
A serious financial architecture cannot be built on the assumption that institutions never fail. The Single Resolution Board exists to make bank failure manageable — preserving critical functions while ensuring that shareholders, creditors and institutions themselves can still bear the consequences.
EQT has identified more than 1,000 potential targets for the Scaleup Europe Fund. The deeper question is what happens next: whether Europe’s exchanges, institutional investors and regulators are ready when today’s scale-ups become tomorrow’s multibillion-euro public companies.
Europe wants deeper capital markets, but its banking layer remains indispensable. The EBA’s role is to keep that layer coherent across the Single Market — strong enough to absorb shocks, flexible enough to support growth, and connected enough to work with capital markets.
The European Investment Fund rarely chooses individual winners. Its deeper role is to share risk, anchor investment vehicles and strengthen the transition from innovation to investability — helping private capital move where markets are not yet ready to move alone.
As Europe’s capital markets become more connected, supervision remains largely national. ESMA is emerging as the institution best placed to guard that interface — protecting market integrity without becoming the operator or owner of the system.
Elon Musk’s interest in free-electron lasers is being framed as an attempt to bypass ASML. The more consequential possibility is different: Terafab may be exploring whether EUV generation itself can move from the individual lithography machine into shared factory infrastructure.
