4YFN/Europe Special edition Feb/March 23

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Europe makes strong pitch for the future

The road to net zero

Great minds discuss ideas

4YFN/EUROPE SPECIAL EDITION FEB 2023

Susan Robertson: Partnerships

Marc Buckley: Editor-at-large

Paula Maultasch: Digital Producer

Welcome

Welcome to this special 4YFN and MWC Barcelona digital edition of Innovators Magazine, produced in partnership with the Knowledge4Innovation Forum of the European Parliament.

Following the launch last year of the EU’s New Innovation Agenda, which announced a bumper package of support for startups and innovators, we look at some of the headline promises that were made and point you to the halls and stands inside 4YFN where you will be able to find out more about these opportunities.

Maria da Graça Carvalho, MEP

Dr Roland Strauss, K4I

And as a new open access platform created by the K4I Forum attracts ideas that could catapult Europe towards its goal of becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050, we share some solutions from the platform to help inspire your own innovation journey.

Ideas like these are a reminder that it’s up to us to create a better future. Which is also something of a rallying call and one we wanted to communicate through our coverage from COP27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt. On #ACopHalfFull tour of the conference Marc Buckley, our editor-at-large, along with the Inside Ideas podcast producer, Paula Maultasch, asked decisionmakers and changemakers what gave them a sense of optimism about the future, as they shifted the narrative towards the amazing potential that exists for transformative change. For #ACopHalfFull dose of this optimism check out our highlights video from Egypt inside.

Finally, I want to wish you all an inspiring and fruitful 4YFN and MWC in Barcelona.

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Lessons from Egypt COP27 strikes a note of optimism 04 Inspiring minds Finding perspective amid the chaos 03

How would you describe yourself to a young person keen to understand who you are and what’s important to you?

I have been a professional observer in politics, economics, culture and ecology for my entire adult life. First as a television cameraman and producer for several international news networks, then as a researcher and documentary filmmaker focused on ecology and ecological restoration of degraded landscapes.

Now at 70 years old I’ve learned to observe, analyze and use scientific method to determine logical and ethical choices for actions to ensure human survival. I’ve also realized that as an individual there is only so much that I can do and I have been working for many years now to engage more and more people in “The Great Work of Our Time”, to restore all degraded lands on the Earth.

The complexity of living systems and the degree of difficulty in restoring them can be daunting. Success requires that we all learn to collaborate with one another and to work together as a species on a planetary scale. This is also the way forward for peace, for ending poverty, for full employment, equality and freedom.

In pursuing your goals, what are the biggest lessons you have learned?

I have learned to be grateful for all the wonder, beauty and grace in the world. This all emerges from a central fact that every moment of life is precious. I have learned to have faith in others who share the same values and who are working for the good of all.

What psychological tools and mindsets do you call upon to stay committed?

Being light hearted, joyful and forgiving helps me to see the good in life and enjoy the moments, days, weeks, years and decades of amazing and miraculous life. Realizing what a blessing it is to know love, to love and be loved is the greatest aid to remaining positive and engaged.

What books have changed your life and why?

Candide by Voltaire, explained that time is not what we might first image it to be. Voltaire also helped me to see

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the absurdity and humor in the frailty and fallibility we each have. Candide also helps explain that while there are specific incidents in each individuals life it is the sum of human understanding that determines the fate of humanity.

Homer’s Odyssey, Alexander Dumas novel of revenge “The Count of Monte Cristo” and other books revealed “The Hero’s Journey” when I was young. This is aptly defined in Joseph Campbell’s book of the same name. These and other books of this type led me to live a life filled with adventure and meaning.

Many religious texts from Western and Eastern cultures have convinced me that throughout all of human history people have sought to understand the meaning of life. I’ve come to see this from the prism of “comparative religion” which sees wisdom where it exists instead of imagining that one cultural perspective is better than others. This engenders tolerance and critical analysis and recognizes dogma, prejudice and intolerance when it appears.

Is there a quote; story; image or creative person or object that continues to inspire your belief that anything is possible?

Perspective connects us to our humanity, placing innovation in its context, it helps remind us of what’s important. In a bid to elevate this authentic voice, our Inspiring Minds series kicks off by asking documentary filmmaker, John D Liu, for his take on life.

Liu is also the Ecosystem Ambassador, Commonland Foundation and founder of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps and Communities Movement

I’m not sure that I believe that “anything” is possible. I do believe that there is the possibility infinite potential genetic diversity but this is different from anything. In my experience the greatest inspiration is in the awesome wonder of nature. One of my earliest memories is of noticing that leaves were turning to face the sun and following the sun across the sky during the day. To then consider that each tree was alive and part of a vast community of trees that were breathing in symbiotic relationship with me and all other oxygen breathing organisms.

This and the knowledge that all the living beings over all of evolutionary time have died and given up their bodies to nurture the next generations of life have put my own life in perspective that makes some sense. It explains why each moment is precious and I’ve seen how my life has purpose and is significant to me and to all life. It also shows that we are all equal and all capable of contributing to the sum of human knowledge.

My father who passed away at 99 years old and my mother who is still alive at 103 have inspired me enormously with their courage and positivity.

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Signs of momentum at COP27

“We have so much evidence that if we succeed in this transition, a more resilient, secure, peaceful and healthy future” lies ahead, Professor Johan Rockström said when I asked him at COP27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh if he had #ACopHalfFull sense of optimism about the future.

Alongside Paula Maultasch, the creative executive producer of the Inside Ideas podcast, we were in Egypt on a mission to generate some excitement about the future, by speaking with some of the people shaping it.

Professor Rockström, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, has written or contributed to some of the most important and influential books ever written on climate, including the ‘The Human Quest: Prospering within Planetary Boundaries’; and most recently: ‘Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity‘. He said the “science is razor sharp” and that “1.5 °C is a physical point we do not want to go beyond” so we must “do

everything we can to decarbonise.”

As well as the extensive evidence showing that a just transition to a resilient future is possible, the internationally renowned scientist also saw other signs of momentum at COP27. “Is there any light in the tunnel to fill up that glass slightly? Well of course, a hundred heads of state came to Sharm el-Sheikh, a COP meeting where we had very low expectations: that is a sign of momentum. We also have a sign of momentum in the business sector being continuously constructive. And we have very powerful voices from civil society.”

For these reasons, Professor Rockström says we must all “hold on to the light in the tunnel” but also appreciate the “window is shutting”.

What Professor Rockström and many others were telling us is we can have both sides of the coin here: optimism and realism, it’s not

a zero-sum game. And it was a message we heard time and again at COP27.

Dr Gunhild A. Stordalen, founder of the international nonprofit, EAT Forum, summed up the general mood well using Barack Obama’s famous line, Yes We Can, when she said: Yes We Can create a better world.

It seemed there were two factors at play in fuelling this renewed sense of optimism: people power and scalable innovations. And plenty of the latter will be on show during 4YFN in Barcelona.

But what COP27 told us is that a bright future is still very much up for grabs, we just have to act fast to secure it. As the Chinese proverb goes: the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.

Watch our roundup video from Sharm-elSheikh - and check out #ACopHalfFull on social media - for more on a future we can all get inspired by.

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Europe adopts a disruptor mindset

The innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, Niccolò Machiavelli warned us, but in Europe the old conditions have no friends left

Training one million deep tech innovators is one of the priorities of the New European Innovation Agenda.

Launched last summer by the European Commission, the Agenda’s aim is to drive the EU’s twin digital and green transitions, putting it on a path to achieve its flagship policy of becoming the world’s first climateneutral continent by 2050.

“The new European Innovation Agenda will ensure innovators, startups and scaleups, and innovative businesses can become global innovation leaders,” said Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation. “We have consulted with stakeholders, such as innovation ecosystem

leaders, startups, unicorns, women founders, women working in the capital venture, universities, and businesses. Together, we will make Europe the global powerhouse for deep-tech innovations and startups.”

Europe is an exciting place for innovators right now, with policymakers creating good conditions for growth, and new funding streams available to changemakers, the EU is earning a reputation as being a dynamic space to operate in.

What startups and entrepreneurs at 4YFN will want to know though, is how they can access finance and support - and some of

the key EU organisations who can answer that are at this year’s event.

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), the continent’s largest innovation ecosystem, is in Barcelona to explain what the institute’s EIT Digital, EIT Food, EIT Health and EIT Urban communities have to offer those who share its goal of creating a ‘more digital, healthier, liveable and sustainable Europe’. For more, visit Hall 8.1 Stand A9

The European Innovation Council is also attending, to promote its multi-billion euro programme of support for ‘game changing innovations throughout their lifecycle from early stage research’ all the way up to the ‘scale up of start-ups and SMEs’. Catch up with the EIC team in Hall 8.1

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Iam honored to contribute to this special edition of Innovators Magazine and the many great ideas we have been collecting as part of the European Innovation Area Manifesto.

Innovation is a critical driver of economic growth and social progress. At TU Delft, we believe that innovation should be guided by a set of principles that ensure that it is inclusive, sustainable, and benefits society as a whole. That is why we support the K4I Manifesto, which lays out our vision for responsible and impactful innovation.

The K4I Manifesto is built on four pillars: innovation for society, innovation for sustainability, innovation for inclusivity, and innovation for collaboration. These pillars reflect our belief that innovation should be guided by the needs of society, and that it should be inclusive and sustainable in order to benefit all stakeholders.

We believe that innovation is not just about

creating new technology, but also about creating new ways of thinking and working. That is why we are committed to fostering collaboration between different sectors, disciplines, and stakeholders. We believe that by working together, we can achieve more impactful and responsible innovation.

In this special edition of Innovators magazine, we are excited to share some of the innovative projects and initiatives that are being developed at TU Delft in line with the K4I Manifesto. From synthetic cell research, sustainable transportation solutions to inclusive healthcare technologies, these projects demonstrate the potential of responsible and impactful innovation to make a positive difference in the world.

We hope that this magazine will inspire others to join us in our mission to create a more inclusive, sustainable, and collaborative innovation ecosystem. Together, we can create a future that is better for all.

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“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas,” the double Nobel prize winning scientist Linus Pauling once said.

Thankfully this is something Europe has always being good at: generating great ideas. They have shaped our amazing continent and transformed the wider world. And now, as we seek solutions to some of the biggest challenges this planet has ever faced, Europe is once again ready to lead, with our ideas, our vision, and our commitment to delivering the first climateneutral continent.

So, I am obviously delighted and truly inspired by the number of game changing, actionable ideas being added daily to the European Innovation Area portal, created by our Knowledge4Innovation (K4I) Forum in the European Parliament to provide a home for transformative and sustainable ideas - some of which you can read about in this magazine.

As Chair of the Forum, it gives me a huge amount of pride to see groundbreaking initiatives like this, brought to the fore by an organisation that has been at the forefront of Europe’s innovation landscape since 2008.

The influence of the K4I Forum is something Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, recognised in her speech at the Forum’s inaugural European Innovation Area Summit last summer, when she said: “The Knowledge4Innovation platform has served the objective of providing the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the stakeholders group with the forum for discussing innovation.” These words, warmly welcomed by everyone involved with the K4I Forum, were delivered at what was an historic moment for the EU, when the Commission was unveiling its New European Innovation Agenda.

The Agenda, a dynamic action plan designed

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da Graça MEP Chair of the Knowledge4Innovation Forum in the European Parliament

to realise the continent’s twin digital and green transitions, has got the potential to be the engine room of the European Green Deal.

It sets out how it will make it easier for startups to access funding, has a target to train one million deep tech pioneers - to help turn Europe into the deep tech capital of the world – and is prioritising support for women innovators.

A great contribution to this agenda, I am proud to say, comes from the European Innovation Area (EIA) Manifesto, which I had the pleasure of helping develop with the Forum, other K4I Forum political members, EIT KICs, European Partnerships, universities, and innovation support organisations. Commissioner Gabriel acknowledged this at the time of the Agenda’s launch, when she said the EIA Manifesto and its eight Focus areas “had a major impact on the creation of this new European Innovation Agenda - and all eight are covered by the new Agenda”.

One of the Manifesto Focus Areas the Agenda is taking forward is the deep tech opportunity, and I have been extremely excited by what leaders in this field have been sharing through the Forum’s new online portal of open access ideas.

Likewise, women innovators and female-led startups - another of the EIA Manifesto focus areas, and integral to the Agenda, are providing some of the most

important solutions. This is a space that is very close to Commissioner Gabriel’s heart, who says women innovators are “responsible for some of the most groundbreaking innovations contributing to a more sustainable future”.

The Commissioner has made it very clear that she is on a mission to give women innovators more of the tools they need to succeed, so they can “close the gender gap” which sees “three quarters [of startups] still founded by men” – an outcome she says will be “good for growth and good for our planet” – and she’s right.

Again, the Forum’s new online ideas resource should be a source of inspiration - not just for the Commissioner, but for women across the continent, as it shows them spearheading a new era for innovation in Europe.

I would like to add that the Forum has long advocated for the establishment of a European Innovation Area that can better coordinate all these ambitions. This approach is working well now, as we see from the successes enjoyed by the European Research Area, and the European Education Area: two streamlined ecosystems generating real impact. We firmly believe a panEuropean innovation ecosystem can do the same for innovation. Because as you can see, we have lots of good ideas that we must jointly implement now.

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Gabriel, said last year had been fully integrated into the New European Innovation Agenda, includes pillars for capitalising on Europe’s deep tech opportunities, regulating the more questionable aspects of disruptive technologies, financing new technologies, moving from education to entrepreneurship, and promoting women innovators.

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity,” is a quote often attributed to Albert Einstein.

It could also quite easily be the slogan of our times. The climate crisis, pandemic, and political instability can sometimes appear like all-consuming, intractable problems that are pushing humanity to the brink. But in the midst of all this chaos lies opportunityand in Europe we are grasping it with both hands.

We can see this most vividly in the innovative ideas we are producing, a veritable conveyor belt of ingenuity that views the future as something, not to fear, but to be inspired by.

And I am very lucky to have a front row seat to a lot of this activity, through the impressive work being carried out by the Knowledge4Innovation (K4I) Forum in the European Parliament to catalyse some of these big ideas.

One great example of this can be seen in the amazing response we are getting to our open call for actionable ideas that can help give form to the eight focus areas, of the European Innovation Areas (EIA) Manifesto, developed by the Forum and its extensive network of policymakers, businesses, startups and academics. The Manifesto, which European Commissioner for Innovation, Mariya

It is a vision for the future of Europe that is now coming to life through the limitless ideas filtering through our open access online EIA resource – some of which you can learn more about in this magazine. But you can do more than read about these ideas, you can bring forward your ownand take an active role in leading Europe towards a climate-neutral future.

I trust the ideas on these pages - and the many more online – will inspire you in the same way they inspire me. Because what they show is a Europe which understands that “we can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”, as Einstein opined.

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01 Green Transition

Current climate policy efforts are insufficient to keep the earth’s average temperature rise below 2 Celsius, let alone 1.5. Resilient adaptation to global warming may well be insufficient and we need to consider cooling the earth by way of climate engineering. The technologies for this are not ready for deployment and deeper scientific insights are required. Moreover, a governance structure is needed taking into account ethical aspects of climate engineering. Deployment of climate engineering technologies will bring about impacts that go across national borders so an international approach is required. The United States has taken an initiative via DARPA. The European Union has not done so as yet. This may result in lagging behind in understanding, despite the high probability that climate engineering may be of geo-political strategic interest to the European Union.

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Europe’s Deep Tech Opportunity

In synthetic cell research scientists seek to understand how cells, and more broadly life, work by trying to replicate the cell molecular mechanisms. Thanks to ERC funding and national initiatives, European scientists are world leaders in this field. Building synthetic cells also promises revolutionary new technologies that will boost the green economy and strengthen Europe’s sovereignty in Deep Tech. Technological applications will cover areas such as producing sustainable chemicals, making materials that are 100% reusable or capable of self-repair, and harnessing CO2 as plants do. Research is progressing rapidly worldwide; the United States and China, in particular, are investing heavily in this field. If Europe were to rely on synthetic biology technologies from beyond its borders, this could lead to both potential dependence and economic loss. European scientists working on synthetic cells need to join forces to upscale research, in collaboration with companies, in one coordinated European Innovation Ecosystem and boost technology development in Europe. Financial support from the European Commission is essential to realize this ecosystem, and to ensure Europe’s leadership in world-class, socially responsible and environmentally sustainable technologies.

Green Transition

More impact is needed from the EU research programs in the real economy. From “Invented in Europe” we must turn the excellent research results into “Made in Europe”. Commissioner Mariya Gabriel gives this boost to initiatives from networks of Universities, Knowledge institutions and entrepreneurs all over Europe. The regions and cities must take a stronger enabling position than ever before. Since 2008 K4I advocated for a better coordination among the EU instruments. From fragmentation to integration. We supported the Smart Specialization Strategies, an obligation for all member states to make combined EU investments a reality. Now we can create more impact from synergies between Horizon Europe and Cohesion Funds. We see a growing interest all over the world in our results. The Organisation of American States (OAS), where I am in function now, shows direct interest in our governance and Smart Specialization and we should strengthen cooperation with third countries. The green and digital transitions show the need for more transatlantic cooperation. Let’s join forces!

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Green Transition

Minerals, metals and advanced materials are key enablers to achieve the objectives of the European Green Deal. Today, only a fraction of the most relevant raw materials is produced in Europe. This can be changed through a circular economy approach, through innovation in recycling, substitution, processing, mining, and exploration. Europe needs to secure a sustainable raw materials supply by driving innovation, education, and deep tech talents across European industrial ecosystems. Europe should develop a European raw materials skills and capacity-building initiative. Allocate substantial funding to scale up the European Raw Materials Academy to develop the modules necessary to attract the needed human capital for industry and to provide the ever-changing needs of this green industrial revolution. Europe needs to increase investment in the primary and secondary raw materials sector and ensure a robust R&D and innovation ecosystem. We must strengthen Europe’s global leadership in science and research to accelerate innovation output particularly via public-private open innovation ecosystems. In this context Europe should allocate additional funding in competitive grants to boost EU R&D and innovation capacity and establish IPCEIs for critical and strategic raw materials value chains constrained by market failures, setting up the ground for a future European Partnership in the raw and advanced materials field.

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Sovereignty

Create a tax incentive/reduction of taxes to private organizations which are buying innovative solutions from the European area via the ‘innovation procurement’ process and ‘partnership of innovation procurement’ where the private organizations have public consultations about innovative solutions for their needs, and they modify and adapt their procurement processes to be able to purchase products, services and solutions from startups and SMEs in Europe.

EUNIKA MERCIER-LAURENT / INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING (IFIP)

Take forward more actions for greening and smarting software. Produce more simulators for evaluating impact of actions/design before implementation. Combine the Knowledge-based AI with connectionist AI. Apply the software invented in Europe in constraint programming for optimizing, scheduling and planning actions. Pursue data sliming as an alternative to big data, and invest in an increase in Knowledge Scientists and circular energy. Stop programmed obsolescence and find alternatives to adds-based business models.

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07 Regulating Emerging Technologies

There are many societal, economic and strategic challenges for Europe but there are very few technologies that will play a key role in each and every one of them. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most far-reaching technology that has this characteristic and is creating a transformation of society. It provides tremendous opportunities as well as some risks that need to be managed. Only by a proactive innovation approach and a strong European innovation policy, can we take the steering wheel and not only create welfare and well-being for European citizens, but also decide what norms and values we want to apply to innovation. Innovation means leading, not following. Innovation is not just technology, but also innovating in ethical and legal frameworks e.g. using regulatory sandboxes involving all key stakeholders in the design phase. This can facilitate a fast transition to higher TRL and societal acceptance based on jointly developed norms, which is stronger than just legislation. AI is not a goal in itself but can provide breakthrough solutions for the energy transition, climate challenges and the Green Deal. But also for traffic and transportation. For healthcare efficiency, cost and outcome. For food and agri. For security. And many other domains. A strong and proactive innovation policy of the EU will stimulate member states collaborating in these areas, creating critical mass to make global impact. NL AI Coalition supports such strong innovation policy.

08 Fostering Innovation Cohesion

Better align EU industrial strategy with regional development and/or national development at the level of the Member States. Create clusters of regional innovation that encompass similar critical mass in terms of market, market access, financial, industrial and human resources perspectives;achieve harmonisation among clusters regarding outcomes, comparability, competitive level.

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The lack of specialized technical and scientific skills, knowledge and competences, hinders the uptake by stakeholders to use information that could support the Green Deal agenda. Map the skills needed for the Green transition using digital information obtained by satellite-derived data and services is essential. To build a discussion on skills, a Trends Observatory is needed to identify and keep the stakeholders informed about emerging trends and innovative approaches affecting the sector, its growth at the European but also international level and its uptake related to other sectors. This goal will be achieved through a Forum of exchange on skills for decision making on the Green transition supported by EO data and services. (i.e., EO4GEO Alliance)

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From Education to Entrepreneurship

Each year, thousands of researchers finish their PhD project. Among them, there are some bright ideas which can be converted into business. By providing proper education on entrepreneurship, this challenge could be tackled. My proposal is to include entrepreneurship education as part of graduate level course in Europe.

Regulating Emerging Technologies

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Simplify and subsidize the CE certification of inventions and local technology products. Without outside help it is almost impossible to understand the directives, methodology and requirements. There are no step by step instructions. Third-party certification prices are many times higher than the entire project budget.

STARTUP/SCALEUP

From Education to Entrepreneurship

PABLO ZAFRILLA DIAZ / MARABUNTA ACCIÓN SOCIAL

Private educational institutions are taking the lead over public universities and training centres when it comes to training Europe’s future entrepreneurs. There is a need for a major innovative programme in itself, relying on professionals, mentors, creators, entrepreneurs and investors from the private sector, to incorporate them into the public educational fabric and generate a rapid and immediate change in the training, spirit and integration of students towards entrepreneurship, creation and the dissemination of innovation through the business fabric.

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Green Transition

Breastfeeding is not only the healthiest way to nourish a baby but also the one with the least environmental impact. By providing digital breastfeeding support at scale, the European Innovation area could significantly improve families’ carbon footprint of food consumption, as breastmilk is near to carbon neutral. Empowering mothers to breastfeed for as long as they wish does not only significantly improve children and mother’s health, it also makes ecological sense.

Europe’s Deep Tech Opportunity

EuropaBio firmly believes that one of Europe’s key Deep Tech opportunities is in genome editing. As such, we propose the creation of a Forum on Genome Editing which would encompass all biotechnology sectors and serve as a platform for dialogue, information sharing and trust building. The Forum would be composed of Member State representatives, industry, researchers, academia, and civil society. Its mandate would include advising policymakers on updating legislation, facilitating innovation in biotechnology and unlocking Europe’s competitiveness, effectively supporting the development of this Deep Tech area and identifying strategic priorities within it. It would also help policymakers adopt a science-based approach to biotechnology products to raise awareness of their benefits. The Forum’s advice will help EU policymakers to engage with the public on the role and potential of advanced solutions and technologies to achieve better health and environmental outcomes.

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ANDREAS LIEBL / APPLIEDAI INSTITUTE FOR EUROPE

Artificial intelligence is a disruptive technology that is a strategic asset of nations. Let us start a grand challenge identifying the best AI powered ideas to tackle climate change. This serves multiple purposes: 1. It creates a positive picture for AI when everyone seems to focus only on the risks. 2. It strengthens the European innovation ecosystem in a key technology 3. It creates much-needed ideas and solutions for the fight against climate change

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How can we organically sequester a gigaton of CO2? By capturing, collecting, and storing carbon, seagrass makes a massive contribution to combating climate change. According to the Helmholtz Climate Initiative, it stores carbon in the soil 30 to 50 times faster than forests on land. Seagrass meadows in the German Baltic Sea have stored about 8.14 million tons of CO2 emissions over an area of 285 square kilometers. Fungal diseases and coastal shipping have already severely depleted seagrass beds.IDEASCANNER uses AI to accelerate digital transformation and sustainable innovation by 10x. In our research, we found that seagrass reintroduction is currently being done painstakingly in small-scale projects by dive schools. Our goal is to work with partners to rapidly scale the recolonization of suitable shallow coastal seagrass beds using underwater robots. In this way, we aim to organically sequester at least one gigaton of CO2 from the atmosphere over the next 10 years.

Women-led VCs and Startups

Pay special attention in all call to the presence, qualitative and quantitative of women. This topic is extremelly relevant for the Green Transition objectives.

Establish committees to monitor funds to make sure they are fairly distributed. Develop opportunities for funds to go exclusively to women and monitor results through ad-hoc committees. Require better transparency and reporting on how resources are allocated according to gender.

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Europe’s Deep Tech Opportunity

We promote changes to the Education Curriculum to foster sySTEMic thinking to better sensitise citizens to the challenges to the Human Eco-System and to better prepare citizens to come up with innovative solutions and to adapt their personal behaviour based on better insights into Reality 21st century curricula should deliver. Whilst Literacy & Numeracy remain basic skills, a future proof society must also equip its citizens with Energy, Climate & Resources literacy. In addition Media-Literacy is of paramount importance to protect individual citizens as well as Democracy as a whole. Strenghthening the Agency of sySTEMic thinking means more critical, logical and holistic thinking which is the only way to meet the challenges ahead of us in a civilised & peaceful way.

Foster the creation of Distributed Cooperative Organisations (DisCOs) - millions of them, to support the implementation of the green transition across the EU and beyond.Organisations of all kinds that prioritise their choice of green impact mission, shared by all its working members, who build care and trust among them, supported by the use of DLT (distributed ledger) and federated technologies to enable inter-nodular economic activities. Because these DisCOs would not be only or mainly profit oriented, but see production as oriented to environmental ends, while taking care of its members and wider networks.Work is a function and a balance between 3 main value flows:LIVELIHOOD work,LOVE work and CARE work.The Green Transition mission would be embedded in the LOVE work performed by the organisation and agreed by its members.We need a pan european business fabric that wants to implement the green transition in its multiple facets, lead by people that believe in it and make a living out of it.

Smart phones, smart watches, smart scales, smart pressure gauges, etc. There are more and more affordable and even cheap smart devices with various sensors that measure the user’s biometric data. A global European platform gathering this data, analysing it by using AI and assessing the probability of different diseases would help with early detection of diseases, and either prevention of their full development or more successful early treatments. Connecting such platform with health records would represent a global system for early detection and prevention of common diseases and thus healthier EU population.

HANS VAN DER LOO / EU STEM COALITION EUROPEAN PARTNERSHIP UNDER HORIZON EUROPE
INNOVATIVE
21 INNOVATIVE SME 18 / JANUARY 2023 IDEAS SHOWCASE
IRENE LOPEZ DE VALLEJO / DISCO.COOP
SME
BOŠTJAN GOMILŠEK / RESULT D.O.O.

22 Women-led VCs and Startups

23 Women-led VCs and Startups

Young women in high school should be matched with entrepreneurs and accomplished professionals (men and women) in different fields so that they can see what possibilities are available to them.

24 Regulating Emerging Technologies

To quickly and drastically increase investment in women-led startups, the following proposal leverages insights from behavioral decision theory to overcome the cognitive biases infecting the VC landscape, and suggests legal and policy initiatives in combination with advances in technology:

1. promote aggressive tax incentives for investment in women-led startups, 2. extend nondiscrimination law to the founder-investor relationships, and 3. incorporation AI into investment decision-making to counter unconscious biases and improve the quality of startup investments.

Improve the frequency and timing of reviewing existing regulations. The timeline for reviewing and evaluating existing regulation must be streamlined. In the interest of economic efficiency and innovation, regulatory evaluation and the monitoring of impact should seek to remove redundant, onerous and inefficient regulation. This will particularly benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), who are often the ones hurt the most by ineffective regulation.

INNOVATIVE
JENNIFER PALUMBO / GO FOR IT SPRL
SME
JORDAN BURNETT / UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG STUDENT
KIMBERLY HOUSER / UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS JANUARY 2023 / 19

26 Women-led VCs and Startups

Create specific lines in funding programmes that are reserved for women. Provide expert advice and support to women and collaborate with women’s associations that are related to research, development and innovation.

27 From Education to Entrepreneurship

From Education to Entrepreneurship

Create twinning programs between EU and South Asian universities to collaborate on University Tech commercialization, university incubator and start-up collaborations.

As a senior advisor to JEUNE aisbl, the Young Entrepreneurs Organization of the European Union, I am leading a task force to establish a mentoring program for youth interested in entrepreneurship or who have just started their business. Experienced entrepreneurs and businesspeople should be encouraged to become mentors, dedicating some of their time to advising and assisting young entrepreneurs, sharing their knowledge, experience and networks of business contacts. By adopting the practice of “paying it forward”, once those young entrepreneurs have themselves gained experience and maturity, they in turn will become mentors, thereby ensuring continuity and growth of mentoring as a core element of European business culture (as it is in Silicon Valley for example).

20 / JANUARY 2023 IDEAS SHOWCASE
LEENA PISHE THOMAS / GLOBAL BUSINESS INROADS BULGARIA LTD.
ENTREPRENEUR
CECILIA HERNÁNDEZ / AMIT-MIT- NETWORK OF WOMEN FOR INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY - SPANISH ASSOCIATION LARRY MOFFETT / E-STRATEGY SRL INNOVATIVE SME
25

28 Financing Innovation and New Technologies

29 From Education to Entrepreneurship

While it’s good to look at the Silicon Valley as a leading example of education and knowledge driven innovation, we should consider that it’s not the only template for innovation and that it may not work as it is in Europe. Other countries or regions provide good examples of knowledge driven innovation like the Greater Boston Area, Israel, and Sweden - all have different realisations of innovation ecosystems and constitute excellent examples Europe might want to learn from. One important peculiarity of Europe is its long time cultural tradition and strong creative and art sector. These, and more in general the social sciences and humanities, would foster innovation more in line with European values and tradition. Therefore, it is highly important to incentivise knowledge driven innovation also from that knowledge area together with (and not in opposition to) technological innovation. This will also allow to prevent unwanted societal consequences of new technologies.

30 Tech Sovereignty

Support to start-ups during valley of death gaps is essential and should be managed at EU level by an agile organisation, able to mitigate the risks from Venture Capitalist firstly at pre-commercialisation stage and at a later stage when going for IPO when aiming to commercialise and roll-out their products. We encourage the European Commission to consider the set up of a European sovereign investment mechanism, as initially foreseen when the EIC Accelerator was designed. The European Commission should remain the single decisionmaker with regards to equity funding. The EIC Fund should only be responsible for the investment implementation modalities and exit strategy. We consider that the governance of the current EIC Fund should be opened to stakeholders such as impact investment funds, corporate funds, entrepreneur funds and business angels, in addition to venture capital funds.

JANUARY 2023 / 21 IDEAS SHOWCASE
Have an ‘EU Company’ type , that new ventures could adopt instead of national variations (Gmbh, SAS, Spa, Srl, etc.)
ENTREPRENEUR
STARTUP/SCALEUP
TRADE/SECTOR ASSOCIATION

31 Fostering Innovation Cohesion

We propose a shared methodology based on ‘backcasting’, a specific form of foresight, to facilitate policy learning (and thus policy-making) within all EU’s territories, independently of their wealth, geographical characteristics and internal political organisation. Incorporating a systemic innovation perspective, this cohesive approach highlights novel options and opportunities for defining adequate policies to positively impact sustainable development and long-term transformative change across the entire EU.

32 Green Transition

Research and Innovation Missions underpinning the Green Deal will have to follow the rationale of responsible research and innovation (RRI) by a codesign and co-creation of research and innovation agendas with all stakeholders, including citizens in order to provide direction to innovation. Consolidated evidence of RRI projects funded under the previous Framework Programme demonstrates that RRI will make research more credible, reliable and inclusive as well as more responsive to societal demands. At the same time, RRI increases the quality of science and strengthens the uptake of innovation in society. However, most research and innovation actors lack capacity, incentives and knowledge to conduct mission oriented consistent with the RRI paradigm as required by the Green Deal. Therefore, a centre of expertise is needed in conjunction with a digital interactive platform that can provide capacity and make RRI knowledge fit for application in mission-oriented research.

33 Tech Sovereignty

In order to be able to insert national discussions and interests into a European debate, it would be important to establish national forums of continued exchange between policymakers, stakeholders, and foresight specialists. Such forums should be organised as an inter-service working group, hosted, for example, by the National Councils for Research and Innovation. Importantly, these working groups should not only facilitate the exchange among experts but they should also have the capacity to conduct foresight studies to inform the discussions and to build consensus based on sound evidence.

UNIVERSITY 22 / JANUARY 2023 IDEAS SHOWCASE
RESEARCH ORGANIZATION
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

35 Europe’s Deep Tech Opportunity

34 From Education to Entrepreneurship

Organizing more hackathons for students on the problems faced by their communities and encouraging local authorities to foresee funds for living labs where best solutions could be tested. Also, more internships for students within tech companies and more industrial PHD schemes in Europe are needed.

We propose that the EU should support the creation of a deep tech solutions hub, because deep has tech become ubiquitous and must be treated as such. A huge amount of the market and society is still far from integrating such technologies. The society can benefit from the creation of an ecosystem of tools, applications and suppliers of deep tech solutions, that aim at solving both critical societal challenges, as well as improving normal everyday tasks, or supporting the modernization of Europe’s economy, increasing the efficiency of the market suppliers, as well as its government and public administration. Also provide support for the creation of a functional Business-toGovernment market - which doesn’t exist yet. Provide support for public administration efficiency and transparency.

36 Green Transition

We urgently need suitable tools for determining and optimizing energy consumption and the associated significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the ongoing production process. We are already in a position to support European manufacturing companies with minimal financial resources and digital know-how in achieving the legal requirements of the Paris Climate Change Agreement with regard to achieving and declaring a product-related Carbon Foot Print or Net Zero significantly earlier than 2030. To this end, we are using the latest, most energy-efficient digitalization technologies, which we are continuously optimizing and developing to meet the globally required “Global Supply Chain Act” using state-of-the-art blockchain and cloud technology as a future goal.

NATIONAL GOVERNMENT JANUARY 2023 / 23 IDEAS SHOWCASE
SERGIU PORCESCU / MOLDOVAN OFFICE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STEFAN HACKLÄNDER / WKW.GROUP
INNOVATIVE
SME
STARTUP/SCALEUP

Financing Innovation and New Technologies

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MIGUEL GARCÍA GONZÁLEZ / SPLORO

37 Green Transition

Fostering of EU-wide exchange of best practices how to convince the neighbourhood of accepting wind turbines, biogas facilities, smart new photovoltaic concepts like co-habitation of PV with agriculture. Use of experience gained in Social Licence to Operate, e.g. in EU projects on sustainable mining etc.

Valorizing grass clippings unfit for feed into different materials like insulation material, paper or growth substrates.

INNOVATION (FUNDING) AGENCY

Fostering Innovation Cohesion

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Foster innovation in public sector: Create a training programme in innovation management for local public authorities (maybe mandatory in some cases - as a condition to access different development grants). For example, training these local authorities in an innovation process such as Design Thinking would help them work in a structured way with teams having key roles and expertise to analyze problems, create and test various solutions, with much higher chances of successful execution and impact.

UDO GENNARI / BUSINESS UPPER
INNOVATION (FUNDING) AGENCY 24 / JANUARY 2023 IDEAS SHOWCASE
WILLY VERBEKE / NATUURINVEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT
AUSTRIA
38 Green Transition
IOAN CARPUS / SIX PATHS CONSULTING STARTUP/SCALEUP
Set up a panEuropean framework for providing a common baseline for tax incentives to promote cross-border investments in innovation and novel tech to build a standard and coherent framework for innovation.

40 Fostering Innovation Cohesion

41 Women-led VCs and Startups

50 Tech Sovereignty

According to the EIS 2021 report, most of EU-13 countries, representing over 80% of the total EU-13 population, are “Emerging Innovators” placed at the bottom of the EIS ranking. In EU-13 there are people with great education and potential, which is often wasted and “not working” for these countries, but also for the entire EU. Only because of the existing barriers they often cannot break through with ideas and successfully finalize the process of implementing innovations. We propose a joint discussion and development of specific dedicated mechanisms, such as:

1) mechanisms that could effectively overcome the existing barriers in the EU-13 and unlock their innovative potential, based on the experience of the EU “Innovation Leaders”, 2) mechanisms ensuring greater participation of innovative companies from EU-13, in projects financed under the EIC Accelerator HEU calls (e.g. an additional selection criterion for “ex aequo proposals” for wider inclusion of great companies from EU-13).

Provide a platform for interaction of women-led VCs and start ups. In addition, guidance and advice could be provided by the EIA to improve the chances of getting funded.

42 Fostering Innovation Cohesion

Make European technology a requirement for public procurements. Everybody from around the world can offer a proposal but has to include technology developed in R&D calls supported by the EU and EuroHPC JU.

Develop and share repeatable innovation solutions EU-wide so that everyone can benefit and build on innovation breakthroughs.

Women-led VCs and Startups

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Establish, disseminate, and support regional single contact points gathering all the required information needed to launch a start-up and access to funds and support.

STARTUP/SCALEUP JANUARY 2023 / 25 IDEAS SHOWCASE
TRADE/SECTOR
ZYGMUNT KRASIŃSKI / POLISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR HIGH TECHNOLOGY
ASSOCIATION
INNOVATIVE
ATTILA TOTH / NOVITECH A.S.
SME
INNOVATIVE
SME
ANA ISABEL GALVEZ PEREZ / RENEWACT
ENTREPRENEUR

From Education to Entrepreneurship

It is important and very acute that the current higher education system wil be closer or even very and most closely related to the real business in that sense that e.g. invited experts or entrepreneuers will be invited not only to give their lectures on the selected topics and themes but also directly leading students during their practicals but on in the schools lecture rooms or laboratories but directly in their offices. It should be widely used system existing already in medicine that medical students have their practicals directly in the best hospitals where their teachers are overseeing their practical assignments. the same system has to be introduced for all tyes of the higher education.

From Education to Entrepreneurship

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At the beginning of being an entrepreneur, you are often alone. For this reason, it’s essential to create an environment where the entrepreneurs feel supported. Is it through easy access to credit, mentorship or an ecosystem, to name a few. Additionally, there are many regulations to comply with within Europe (or European countries such as Belgium) before starting a business. This is why regions outside of Europe (N.America, Asia) are doing better than Europe/us. In the Economist US and China have venture-backed companies valued at over $1bn at 1.25 and 0.75 respectively and in Europe, less than 0.25 (Google search “harder better faster stronger Pitchbook Economist”) One actionable idea is to create an organisation, ala Futurpreneur in Canada, where an entrepreneur can easily access credit. When this happens, a pro-bono mentor is teamed up with this entrepreneur. This organisation could also look at other ideas to reduce existing European hurdles that encourage entrepreneurship.

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UNIVERSITY
HUGH VAN PRAET / GUIDING PROGRESS
ENTREPRENEUR

ALEX AMO / SCIENCE FOR CHANGE

45 Tech Sovereignty

Estonia has proposed a NATO-like expenditure rule for cybersecurity in Europe. While there are a number of initiatives on the EU level, these measures will not have a tangible effect unless the investment is stepped up considerably. Cybersecurity is chronically underfunded and it needs to be put at the top of the priority list of the Union if the digitalisation of the private and public sectors is supposed to be successful. Estonia proposes to agree on a global framework on cybersecurity, the same way NATO has the 2% target of GDP on defence. Cybersecurity should have a NATO comparable target, methodology and benchmark to measure level of investment and preparedness.

RESEARCH ORGANIZATION

46 Fostering Innovation Cohesion

47 Financing Innovation and New Technologies

Most regions don’t have critical mass to foster innovation, creating knowledge asymmetries and holding back entrepreneurial mindsets. By creating virtual eco-systems that bring together the full range of disciplines and sectors to mentor, support and collaborate on excellent science, talented investigators and innovative SME will have full support at their fingertips to translate excellence into innovation. Innovation starts at the basic science, and conversely new ideas form in the market - we need to tie these worlds together so that the knowledge journey has no gaps, particularly in complex markets such as healthcare and medicine, technology, energy. By doing this, we reduce both perceived risk - thereby creating more entrepreneurs - and real risk, by helping talented researchers access users, gatekeepers, funders, regulators and more.

To accelerate the development of deep tech at scale, a global democratic and transparent financing system for science based innovation is urgently needed. By providing a global stock exchange for deep tech startups, retail and institutional investors alike can invest in the private equity class at scale. This will increase the availability of assets for investment in the private equity class worldwide, effectively financing more deep tech innovation.A distinguishing and truly disruptive feature is the provision of liquidity, allowing investors to engage in short term private equity trading.

IDEAS SHOWCASE
INNOVATIVE SME
AXEL P. MUSTAD / ATOMIQ AS
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Joel Agard, Group Head of Innovation at Zurich, and Antony Elliott, Group Head of Digital R&D

Zurich

What is the Zurich Innovation Championship?

The Zurich Innovation Championship is Zurich’s global startup program that was launched in 2018 and is currently in its fourth edition (kicked off in January 2023). It’s the largest global open innovation contest with startups in the insurance sector, with 30 ongoing startup collaborations worldwide resulting from the program so far.

How does it support startups?

Zurich sees innovation through collaboration as a key means to future-proof its business, since through collaboration the best of both worlds come together: Zurich with its global footprint, vast network and strong brand; and the startups with their bold thinking, fast execution and innovative solutions with the potential to transform the industry. Zurich employs “matchmaking” to match the participating startups with its business units and global functions. The joint initiatives are then evaluated by executive judges; and winning initiatives ultimately move to an accelerator phase where the startups will work closely with business unit leaders and innovation experts to rapidly validate the solution and define a joint business development plan to scale its adoption globally.

Where are previous winners making an impact?

We have seen many promising initiatives come out of the Zurich Innovation Championship. The 30 ongoing startup collaborations tackle various themes and parts of the insurance value chain. Examples range from Salient, a weather risks predictive solution capable of predicting events up to 52 weeks in advance, that has partnered up with Zurich and Zurich Santander in Brazil; to Binah.ai,

which collaborates with Zurich’s digital health and wellbeing business LiveWell to provide AI-powered, video-based health and wellness monitoring solutions; and Anagog, a startup that is using Edge AI to deliver impactful services to customers without needing to have access to their private data, together with Zurich Portugal.

Why are you at 4YFN?

We know that there are many exciting startups who don’t see themselves as InsurTechs, but can add tremendous value to Zurich and our customers. We’re looking forward to presenting the Zurich Innovation Championship and meeting with many promising entrepreneurs and startups. It’s another opportunity for us to show that our program is much more than about finding the next set of winners; we look to connect with startups in the long-term and together create the future of insurance and beyond.

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