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Tech firms fall to US raiders as retention fears intensify

The Times | 10/06/2025 - The entrepreneur and venture capitalist Hermann Hauser, the founder of Arm, one of the UK's biggest tech success stories, said that the UK was vulnerable as "we don't have a start-up problem, but we do have a scale-up problem". Hauser, who is among the investors in Oxford Ionics, spun out of Oxford University in 2019, and a member of the European Innovation Council fund board, said the agreed sale to Ion Q, listed in New York, was a "positive outcome" because "a lot of the investment will remain in the UK".

The ChatGPT of cybersecurity

El Correo | 10/06/2025 | Spain - After testing the solution "with several important clients," the firm, which already had the support of Telefónica and Bugante Invest, obtained backing from the EIC Accelerator program last year, an initiative through which the European Union supports the consolidation of startups and SMEs considered highly innovative and capable of bringing disruptive technologies and products to market.

Bridging the digital divide: Omar Qaise

The CEO Magazine | 09/06/2025 - “Building a space-based network comes with unique challenges, and I strive to demonstrate the perseverance needed to overcome these obstacles,” he says. “By showing that setbacks are opportunities for growth, I hope to inspire our team to tackle challenges head-on and emerge stronger.” The potential impact of the company’s work is immense, and recognition is growing. The company recently received a grant from the European Innovation Council – a significant milestone.

GALATEA - Blue Growth Accelerator

This call aims at developing new cross-sectoral and cross-border industrial value-chains integrating technologies and know-how from aerospace and ICT communities to 4 key Blue Growth domains: Smart Port, Smart Ship, Smart Shipyard and Maritime Surveillance.

 
MarTERA Call 2021

MarTERA has launched a fourth joint call for transnational research and innovation projects. This call is initiated by ministries/funding organisations from 9 countries: Belarus, Belgium, Germany, Malta, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Africa and Turkey. The total funding budget is EUR 8.5 million.

 
Webinar & EPO Cooperation: Patent Protection for EU-funding Beneficiaries - Artificial Intelligence in MedTech

We are happy to announce the second session of the "Patent protection for EU funding beneficiaries" lecture series organised in co-operation with the European Patent Office (EPO). Each lecture explores the interface between patents and the respective technical field. This session focusses specifically on Artificial Intelligence in MedTech and introduces the main aspects of intellectual property (IP) management: notably IP ownership, protection and exploitation. Please note that by registering for one session, participants automatically register for all sessions within the series.

Advanced-Level Webinar: Maximizing the Impact of Horizon Project Results

From proposal stage to project implementation and successful exploitation, intellectual property (IP) plays a pivotal role throughout the lifecycle of an EU-funded project. This webinar offers a comprehensive overview of IP creation and management during and beyond the duration of a Horizon project.

Advanced-Level Webinar: Maximizing the Impact of Horizon Project Results

From proposal stage to project implementation and successful exploitation, intellectual property (IP) plays a pivotal role throughout the lifecycle of an EU-funded project. This webinar offers a comprehensive overview of IP creation and management during and beyond the duration of a Horizon project.

Meet the women leading innovation in Europe

This year’s winners of the Women Innovators Prize are women who are pioneering game-changing innovations across a wide range of industries and helping to combat global challenges.

 
The EIC Fund: new opportunity for Europe’s innovative companies

The Fund was presented during the session “Europe's new ‘Super Fund': the EIC Fund”, which gathered Commissioner Gabriel and five experts from the EIC Fund Board of Directors and Investment Committee, as well as from the EIB as advisor to the Fund. The Fund represents a great opportunity for private investors to invest alongside the Fund in highly innovative companies.

Last EIC Accelerator call of the year

The EIC Accelerator is part of the European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot that supports top-class innovators, entrepreneurs, small companies and scientists with funding opportunities and acceleration services. Do not miss this year's final cut-off on 7 October!

 
Women in Intellectual Property: Celebrating their Innovation and Creativity

In the occasion of the World IP Day 2023, we recently spoke with Catherine Heng Yee Huynh, a bi-cultural and enthusiastic Intellectual Property Law and Data Privacy lawyer based in Paris, France. She is the founding partner of the law firm CATHERINE HENG YEE HUYNH and has expertise in the protection of creations, especially in France, mainland China and Hong Kong. Catherine shared with us the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in the IP domain, including the fact that women are still underrepresented in the field.

 
Helping to save our planet: LIFE projects on the front line

Climate change is happening all around us. Polar ice shields are melting, and sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events like flooding, heatwaves and droughts are escalating. And, things look set to get worse in the coming decades. We present five LIFE projects that are working hard to alleviate the situation.

 
How LIFE is protecting European bat populations

Bats are vital for biodiversity, they eat lots of insects, helping to reduce the numbers of mosquitoes, grasshoppers and other pests on farms. These seven LIFE projects are playing an important role in ensuring that this long-misunderstood species thrives well into the future.

 
New publication: Empowering the licensing capabilities of EIC-funded start-up companies

Licensing has a key role for many EIC beneficiaries, serving as a vital mechanism facilitating technology transfer, accelerating market entry, and enabling revenue generation. The Innovation Radar analysis revealed that 37 percent of EIC-supported innovations required or would benefit from licensing. Licensing is portrayed as a robust business strategy providing access to technology and intellectual property, highlighting various models like development partnerships, freedom to operate agreements, and horizontal as well as vertical commercial licensing strategies.

 
How to record copyright in China?

Voluntary copyright registration is useful in China especially when starting enforcement proceedings in case of an infringement because authorities would require you to show copyright certificate as proof of your rights before taking up your case. In this article, the China IP SME Helpdesk external expert Dr Jian Xu explains how to register copyright in China.

 
China's Supreme People's Court Amends the Jurisdiction Rules of the IP Tribunal

In November 2023, the China’s Supreme People's Court amended the Jurisdiction Rules of the IP Tribunal, limiting the scope of the cases handled by the special IP Tribunals so that the IP Tribunals will focus on ‘significant and complicated’ cases. Read the China IP SME Helpdesk external expert Dr Leslie Xu’s analysis to learn what this means in practice for the right holders. The article was first published on the website of Chang Tsi & Partners.

 
Communicating MSP: input wanted for webinar

Following the publication of the Communicating MSP guide, the EU MSP platform will organise an online workshop dedicated to the communication needs and priorities of MSP stakeholders. Take part to this preliminary survey to help us design this event and select the key topics you would like to discuss with MSP experts. To take part to the short survey click "more"

 
International Ocean Governance Consultation

Targeted consultation on International Ocean Governance is launched! The consultation aims at assessing development needs and options for the Agenda in light of today’s challenges and opportunities to deliver ocean-related targets of Agenda 2030 and in particular the Sustainable Development Goal on Conservation and sustainable use of the oceans (SDG14) in support of the European Green Deal.

 
Give your feedback on the re-use of plastic waste

Would you like to give your opinion about the re-use of plastic waste? FiberEUse, a Horizon 2020-funded project, has recently launched the "FiberEUse Idea Manager" platform. The users can provide feedback on the design of solutions elaborated within the project, also grading different alternatives. The highest rated ideas will be manufactured as prototypes and showcased at the 2020 Milan Design week.