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EU funding does more than return money to member states. A study of Dutch provinces shows how research, cohesion and agricultural funds shape different regional economies—and why Europe’s next budget must consider where growth takes place.
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.
Six investments in, Europe’s Scaleup Europe Fund is moving from institutional design to market execution. The next test is harder: whether its capital can mobilise markets, attract institutional investors and keep strategic European companies anchored as they scale.
Europe has the savings and the industrial ambition. What it still lacks is the architecture connecting banks, public institutions and institutional capital to investable projects across technology, energy, agrifood, health and advanced manufacturing.
Europe’s regional banks possess the relationships and sector knowledge to identify industrial investment close to the real economy. The challenge is turning that local intelligence into standardised, investable assets capable of reaching European scale across borders.
Europe is building a new generation of deep tech — but risks losing control at the moment of scale. As global capital steps in, the question shifts from innovation to ownership: who will finance, and ultimately shape, Europe’s technological future?
