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Europe’s breakthrough technologies need customers prepared to use them. As the EIC’s 2027 Work Programme strengthens support for market adoption, six questions examine what turns a successful pilot into a paid deployment—and a first order into a scalable business.
What does it take to finance the next step from a promising technology to industrial production? Starting with Proxima Fusion, this five-part series examines the role of the Scaleup Europe Fund and the risks that investors, customers and public institutions can each help carry.
From research grants to growth capital, Europe offers several routes to support innovation. But each brings different obligations, risks and entry requirements. Can the EIC connect these instruments into a continuous investment journey — and help companies survive the gaps between them?
Nvidia’s investment in Doctolib sharpens Europe’s innovation dilemma: accelerating growth while preserving room for competing technologies. Beyond research funding, European breakthroughs need first customers, credible validation and access to infrastructure that allows tomorrow’s alternatives to compete.
Europe’s energy future depends on turning scientific breakthroughs into reliable industrial capabilities. Strategic Briefing IV explores how research teams, start-ups and scale-ups contribute to that transition—and why demonstration projects, first customers and deployment finance determine which innovations become part of Europe’s energy architecture.
Europe’s scientific strength does not automatically become industrial strength. In this four-part series, Altair Media Europe explores who finances the journey from breakthrough research to production and practical use — and how public funding, banks and institutional investors can connect.
ASML sells virtually no chipmaking machines in Europe. The demand exists, but remains fragmented across industries. Europe’s semiconductor challenge may therefore be less about building fabs than about turning its own companies into coordinated anchor customers.
Michiel Scheffer wants Europe to do more than finance scientific discovery. His vision for the European Innovation Council connects research, patient capital, industrial demand and strategic procurement—turning breakthrough technologies into companies, production capacity and European power.
Energy storage is often discussed as a question of batteries. Yet its deeper role lies elsewhere. As renewable energy reshapes Europe’s electricity system, storage is becoming the infrastructure that synchronises production, demand and time itself.
Europe’s energy transition is no longer defined by individual technologies alone. The European Innovation Council’s Top 100 energy innovators reveal something much larger: the gradual emergence of a new European energy architecture built upon interconnected capabilities, coordinated innovation and strategic systems.
