As with a new movie or play, the reviews are starting to come in on the EU’s big new research programme, Horizon Europe. And the verdict is “so-so”, according to an online survey by Science|Business.
Ever since the framework for Horizon Europe was announced, there has been a great deal of interest and curiosity about one of its new features: innovation ecosystems. On one hand, many appreciate another clear and ambitious commitment from the Commission to boost Europe’s innovation performance and sustainable business growth. On the other, however, concerns persist about the feasibility of building an interconnected, inclusive ecosystem that links hundreds of national, regional and local equivalents across the continent.
Ever since the framework for Horizon Europe was announced, there has been a great deal of interest and curiosity about one of its new features: innovation ecosystems. On one hand, many appreciate another clear and ambitious commitment from the Commission to boost Europe’s innovation performance and sustainable business growth. On the other, however, concerns persist about the feasibility of building an interconnected, inclusive ecosystem that links hundreds of national, regional and local equivalents across the continent.
Many people use a long holiday break for reading – and in my case, a massive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer has been on my night table for the past few weeks. As I reflect on it now, it strikes me that what the Manhattan Project’s scientific director and his physicist-colleagues went through after the war holds lessons for us today, hoping for the end of our own generation’s global crisis.