Research, Innovation and Competitiveness – A Strategic Priority for Europe

Europe is struggling to convert excellent research into innovation. Despite world-leading science in many fields, the EU lags behind the US and China in translating research breakthroughs into scalable, market-ready solutions.

There is a fundamental mismatch between Europe’s R&I ambitions and the business conditions required to achieve them. Without stable frameworks and strong incentives, the private sector cannot deliver at the scale Europe needs.

Looming threats to the Horizon Europe successor, Framework Programme 10 (FP10), such as potential budget diversion to industrial subsidies – would further threaten Europe’s innovation capacity and widen the gap.