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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.
Europe’s food system extends far beyond the farm. Agriculture increasingly connects biology with energy, chemistry, technology, logistics, research and finance — creating a complex European system behind the ordinary food we encounter every day.
Northern Europe consists largely of small economies, yet its public markets have produced an unusually connected ecosystem for growing companies. Nasdaq Nordic & Baltic raises a bigger European question: can accessible capital markets help small countries build globally competitive companies?
Europe’s Food System explores how agriculture, science, technology, industry and society increasingly shape one another. Through a series of in-depth Perspectives, Altair Media examines the organisations, innovations and ideas shaping the future of food across Europe.
Wageningen University & Research has evolved far beyond agriculture. By integrating biology, artificial intelligence, robotics and environmental science, it is helping shape the resilient food systems upon which Europe’s future health, security and sustainability increasingly depend.
Can smaller universities become strategic assets? The University of Twente demonstrates that innovation is not defined by scale alone, but by the ability to integrate technology, entrepreneurship and society into a distinctive model of European excellence.
Europe’s strength may not lie in replicating Silicon Valley, but in connecting its specialised innovation ecosystems. From Brainport and Dresden to Paris-Saclay and the Baltic States, Europe’s future competitiveness increasingly depends on collaboration across complementary centres of scientific and industrial excellence.
Innovation depends on more than scientific excellence. It depends on how effectively knowledge circulates between universities, industry and society. TU Eindhoven demonstrates how regional ecosystems can transform education into Europe’s long-term technological capacity.
As semiconductor manufacturing approaches its physical limits, photonics is becoming an essential enabling technology. From ultrafast lasers in Lithuania to advanced optical materials and photonic integration in Latvia, the Baltic States are quietly strengthening the global semiconductor supply chain.
Europe’s technological ambitions depend on far more than research funding and industrial investment. They depend on universities capable of educating the engineers, scientists and innovators who will design, build and sustain the continent’s future infrastructure.
