"By 2034, Europe will have a strong and growing web of innovation ecosystems, developing sustainable technologies. They will involve universities, research organisations, big and small companies, and governments – from town and city to nation and continent. They will rapidly move promising green ideas from lab to market, have a global perspective, and focus on what citizens say they want and need rather than what companies or researchers want to deliver. And they will have enough funding, public and private, to make all of this happen."
The European Green Deal is arguably the biggest ambition of the current European Commission and EU leaders agree on the need to accelerate Europe’s transition to a net-zero industry. While the EU agreed to invest part of its 1.8 trillion budget euros into accelerating the transition to a more sustainable economy, it needs to get better and faster at moving tech ideas towards the marketplace. Several related questions arise, among which: How Europe’s climate policies and tools can help set the right research and investment priorities to help make it happen?