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A glimpse at an up-and-coming project. We've spent the last six months working with a wide group of people and orgs across Cambridge and the surrounding region trying to answer one simple question: what's the region's secret sauce? Yes, it has one of the world's most foremost Universities at its core - but around that has grown a vast innovation ecosystem of 5,000 knowledge based firms, over 60 multinationals, three dozen research parks and five hospital trusts working together with a vibrant investor and start-up community. By many metrics, Cambridge IS the innovation capital of Europe – from an investor's perspective, this is a place where £1 can often become £17 and it holds more Nobel prizes per capita than anywhere else on the planet. Yet the way the ecosystem described itself varied hugely from one part to another, hampering its ability to present a united front. Our task has been to encapsulate all of this and to work with a wide-ranging team from across the education, council, innovation and investor communities to agree one single way to describe this. We shared the first glimpse of this work at the Innovate Cambridge summit this week. With less than 200 words, one headline (Cambridge: Where Innovation Makes History) and the judicious use of John Venn's famous diagram (himself a Cambridge University alum), we think we've made a start. Much more to come, watch this space. Thanks to the Innovate Cambridge Cambridge Enterprise Cambridge Innovation Capital and University of Cambridge teams for their support, and many individuals especially Kathryn Chapman Diarmuid O'Brien Anne-Cécile Larribau Joanna Tramontin Michael Anstey Michelle Lamprecht Tabitha Goldstaub

Unique offering for everybody interested in #scaleups and #highgrowthfirms: Participate in the European Scaleup Conference and get access to our European Scaleup Institute Analyst 🤗 On June 10-11, we will have the second edition of the annual scaleup conference of the European Scaleup Institute in Rome on the campus of Luiss Guido Carli University. In this conference, we bring together academics, educators, practitioners and policy makers to discuss the topic of scaling companies. At the conference, we will officially present our newest tool that can assist policy makers and other data nerds to dynamically analyze the European scaleup ecosystem. We have been building a #GPT that allows users to chat with our unique database, brining together different growth metrics on 1.5 M European companies for 27 European countries. All conference participants will get early access to this GPT at the conference. If you want to take advantage of the early bird registration, you can register for the conference via this link: https://lnkd.in/ek_VuhWr

The ITRE committee at the European Parliament published a draft of it's evaluation of Horizon Europe. The document shows the Parliament vision for the 10th Research Framework Programme (FP10) to secure Europe’s leadership in Research and Innovation (R&I). Key Recommendations by Pillar: 🔬 Pillar 1: Excellence Science - Expand the #ERC to support frontier research and breakthrough innovations. Sccording to the report, this should receive half of the FP10 budget - Launch a European Fellowship Program to attract global talent and reverse brain-drain into brain-gain. - Expand access to cutting-edge research infrastructures, especially in under-represented regions. 🌍 Pillar 2: Global Challenges & Competitiveness - Simplify participation to reduce barriers for newcomers and smaller organizations. - Focus on fewer, high-impact missions aligned with priorities like clean energy and digital autonomy. - Drive strategic technology initiatives to secure Europe’s leadership in critical sectors. 💡 Pillar 3: Innovative Europe - Equip the #EIC with a tailored legal framework to operate as swiftly as private venture capital. - Foster stronger collaboration between universities, startups, and industry to create a unified innovation pipeline. - Position the EIC as a global leader in scaling deep-tech enterprises. Governance Redesign for FP10 ---- The report emphasizes a user-oriented, science-led approach with effective and efficient implementation, including: - A redesigned governance based on recommendations from the Heitor and Draghi reports to improve agility: ➡️ Prioritize science and innovation over policy objectives. ➡️ Align with EU priorities, but led by R&I, not policymakers. ➡️ Implement self-governance, empowering top experts to shape how research can best address policy goals. ➡️ Establish four expert-led #councils to oversee foundational research, global challenges, strategic industries, and market-ready innovation. - 💶 Proposed Budget: EUR 220 billion. R&I spending in the EU should be better coordinated. This would help to achieve the EU’s 3% GDP target. FP10 must simplify complexity, support #breakthrough ideas, and empower Europe’s brightest minds to deliver transformative solutions. Let’s ensure science and innovation lead the way. 💬 "While FP10 can and will play a crucial role for EU competitiveness, it should not be driven by it, it should be driven by science, research and deep-tech entrepreneurs." #HorizonEurope #FP10 #ResearchAndInnovation #ScienceLeadership #InnovationStrategy

Just one week left to submit your paper outline for The Industry Papers. The Industry Papers 2024 – Call for Papers process will close next Friday, 15 March - get your outline submitted in time for a chance to be featured in the final publication. No idea or policy proposal is too big or too small. We are seeking papers from domain experts from SMEs to corporates, startups, research institutions and academia to identify opportunities to build Australian industry, and the policies that will drive its revitalisation. Have your say and submit an outline - The deadline for submitting your proposal is Friday, 15 March. Read more about the Call for Papers here - https://buff.ly/43oKSSl #IAPapers24 #CallForPapers #Industry #capital #policy #papers James Riley Corrie McLeod

Pre-acceleration - DONE! NEXT - Let's Accelerate! ⏭️ What does this mean? It's simple. 💪In the coming months, we will work intensively with the teams selected for Creative Accelerator #2, with even more support from experts and mentors. ✅We will validate and test marketing hypotheses, develop the business model, and prepare their #pitch for Demo Day. The $10,000 grant fund for the winners of the Accelerator, provided by Western NIS Enterprise Fund, will be awarded to teams that impress the judges at demo day. We'll come back with renewed energy on April 10th. Until then, let's soak up some vitamin D. There's plenty of it available for free right now. P.S. This is not an April Fool's joke. ——— Creative Accelerator is implemented by Yep!Moldova with financial support from Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF). The program partner is the Future Technologies Activities, funded by USAID Moldova, Embassy of Sweden in Chisinau, and UK in Moldova - British Embassy Chisinau.

How to think about investing into AI? Check out the upcoming #4NGELS webinar on April 10th!

Earlier in September, in collaboration with the Deep Transitions Lab and Eu-SPRI Forum, the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) gathered 150 policymakers, private investors, and academics for Engagement Week in #Barcelona earlier this month. Hosted by the Government of Catalonia, it brought together experts from over 30 countries, centred around the theme ‘Scaling Experimentation: A Catalyst for Transformative System Change’. Through thought-provoking learning workshops 💡, expert panels, insights and experiences from various regions of the world, public and private actors worked side-by-side to explore novel strategies for long-term solutions 🤝 Professor Johan Schot, TIPC co-founder, highlighted, “Public and private actors may operate under different models, but both are committed to creating meaningful change. Business as usual is no longer feasible, and this event helps us harness our strengths to accelerate transformation.” 📢 The launch of the European TIP Hub (TRIP-EuHub), a new initiative connecting research organisations and governments across Europe for innovation and capacity building. 🔗 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/e2cbBaah  #TIPC #TransformativeInnovation #Collaboration #TRIPEuHub #InnovationPolicy  

How does firm survival increase with age? We document how early life conditions of firms shape their probability to survive. We do this by combining machine learning and a big dataset with firm financial data for all startups in the Netherlands over the period 2006 - 2021. We interpret results using theories on firm survival. Wednesday 14:00 I will present the research in the AXES seminar at IMT Lucca. Unable to make it to Italy? The presentation can be followed via Zoom as well (see comment for the link)! Joint work with Erik Stam, Fabio Incerti, Falco J. Bargagli Stoffi and Massimo Riccaboni.

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