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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 has no shortage of savings. The harder challenge is turning those savings into productive investment. How Europe Gets Capital Moving examines the institutions, market structures and financial infrastructure that determine how capital reaches companies, innovation and long-term European growth.
Europe’s Scaleup Fund is beginning to do more than finance individual companies. With six investments completed and more than 100 firms in the pipeline, it may be creating the late-stage capital layer Europe has long lacked.
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.
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 is beginning to build the funds its scale-ups need. But growth capital is only a bridge. Without sufficient liquidity, specialist investors and a credible European exit market, its most successful technology companies may still gravitate towards New York.
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 has never lacked innovation. Its challenge has been transforming research excellence into global companies that remain rooted in Europe. The scale-up gap raises a deeper question: can Europe build the capital architecture needed to turn innovation into ownership, influence and long-term sovereignty?
