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Wi-Fi on airplanes could finally keep up with the 21st century. The European Space Agency and Airbus have just proven that it is possible to use lasers to transmit gigabit internet from space to a moving aircraft.

The test achieved 2.6 gigabits per second between an aircraft and the Alphasat satellite 36,000 kilometers above Earth. This speed continued for several minutes. At this speed, an HD movie can be downloaded in seconds. The connection remained stable the entire time, even as the plane moved and crashed through clouds.

It’s brutally difficult to aim a laser at a fast-moving target from that distance. The system had to take into account the vibrations of the aircraft, its constant movement and atmospheric interference that would disrupt a normal radio connection. It still worked.

A laser detected at 36,000 kilometers

The UltraAir terminal on the aircraft had to remain aligned with the satellite throughout the movement. Turbulence, curves, height differences. Any interruption in the beam breaks the connection. Airbus built the terminal and it held up.

The UltraAir laser terminal from Airbus on the plane Airbus Defense and Space

Laser communication surpasses radio in two ways. The beams are narrow and therefore pack more data. A laser connection can transmit far more information than a radio signal. They are also much harder to intercept, which is ideal for military and commercial users.

The radio spectrum is overcrowded, so optical connections circumvent this problem entirely. The main difference is how the signal gets to your receiver on the final leg. Starlink and most other satellite internet services use radio waves to transmit data from space to your dish, but laser communications use focused beams of light instead. Laser connections can transmit far more data, are subject to less interference and use significantly less power than traditional radio-based systems.

Why Europe relies on laser connections

This wasn’t a random experiment. It is part of HydRON, ESA’s plan for a space-based optical network. Think fiber optic cable, but in orbit.

The ScyLight program supported the work with funds from the Netherlands and Germany. Europe wants its own secure data infrastructure. Relying on crowded radio bands for everyone to sing is not a long-term strategy.

Laser terminal seen from outside Airbus Defense and Space

ESA’s Laurent Jaffart said the test solved the difficult problems associated with fast laser communications, particularly avoiding interference in difficult conditions. Airbus sees both defense and commercial potential. Francois Lombard described the precision required as “extreme” and said it ushered in a new era for laser satellites.

When you will actually use this

Not on your next flight. Probably not the one after that. But the path is now visible.

ESA’s Harald Hauschildt said connecting aircraft to networks like HydRON was a priority. This includes high-altitude platforms and regular aircraft.

The same technology works for ships at sea and vehicles in remote areas. Places that cell towers cannot reach. Deserts, oceans, disaster areas. Laser links could keep them online.

The industry can strengthen Europe’s autonomy by leading in secure laser communications. The hard part is done. Now someone has to build the network.

Since Chatgpt's debut in 2022, generative AI quickly entered our work, study and personal life and contributed to accelerating research, creating content and rather unprecedented.

The enthusiasm for generative AI tools understandably has an even faster acceptance rate than the Internet or PCs, but experts warn that we should be careful. As with any new technology, generative AI can drive society in different ways, but can also bring consequences if it is not checked.

One of these voices is Natasha Govender-Ropert, head of the AI for financial crimes at Rabobank. She came to TNW founder Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten in the latest episode of “Kia's Next Big Drive”, about an ethics, the bias and the question of whether we outsource our brain on machines.

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A question that should be in our minds is if we turn more and more for answers, what effects this trust on our own intelligence could have?

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A current study of with the use of chatt to write essays has developed into a number of sensational headlines, “researchers say that the use of chatt can rotten her brain” to “Chatgpt may make lazy and stupid”. Is that really the case?

Your brain on gen ai

Here is what actually happened: Researchers gave a task in the Boston region. A group used chatt, another Google used (without the help of AI), and the third had to write nothing but her brain. As she wrote, her brain activity was measured with electrodes.

After three sessions, the group only showed brain the highest psychological connectivity. Chatgpt user? The lowest. It seemed as if the AI supported people were driving on autopilot while the others had to think harder to get words on the side.

The roles returned for the fourth round. The group only had to use Chatgpt this time, while the AI group had to go alone. The result? The former improved their essays. The latter struggled to remember what they had written at all.

Overall, the study showed that the other groups in the four months in which it was carried out in relation to neuronal, linguistic and behavior levels, while those who use chatt spent less time for their attachments and simply wore copy/insert.

English teachers who checked their work said that original thoughts and “soul” were missing. Sounds alarming, right? Maybe, but the truth is more complicated than the sensationalist headlines suggest.

The results were less about decaying the brain and more about mental abbreviations. They showed that monitoring of LLMS can reduce intellectual engagement. But with active, thoughtful use, these risks can be avoided. The researchers also emphasized that the study raises some interesting questions for further research, but also much too small and simple to draw final conclusions.

The death of critical thinking?

While the results (which do not have to be checked) require that we should use this tool in educational, professional and personal contexts, the TLDR headlines that have been designed for clicks about accuracy is.

The researchers seem to share these concerns. They created a website with a FAQ page on which they asked reporters not to use a language that inaccurate and sensational the results.

Source: FAQ for “Your brain on chatt: accumulation of cognitive debts when using an ai assistant for tasks with essays” https://www.brainonllm.com/faq

Ironically, they listed the resulting “noise” reporters who use LLMs to summarize the paper and added: “Your human feedback is very welcome. If you read the paper or parts of it. The study also contains a list of restrictions that we list in the newspaper and on the website very clearly.”

There are two conclusions that we can certainly pull out of this study:

• Further studies on how LLMS should be used in educational environments is essential
• Students, reporters and the public who become a large scale about the information or generative AI we receive must remain of crucial importance

Researchers of the Vrije Universityitait Amsterdam are concerned that with our increasing trust in LLMS, the risk of critical thinking or our ability and willingness to question and change social norms could really be at risk.

“The pupils can carry out less likely or comprehensive search processes themselves, since they have postponed the relevant and informed tone of the Genai edition. The non-inpatient perspectives on which the output is based may be less likely, their perspectives are not considered, and the demands that inform the claims and the assumptions informed for the claims are adopted.”

These risks indicate a deeper problem in the AI. If we take its outputs to the nominal value, we can overlook embedded distortions and undisputed assumptions. Combating this information not only requires technical corrections, but also the critical reflection on what we understand primarily with bias.

These problems are of central importance for the work of Natasha Govender-Ropert, head of the AI for financial crimes at Rabobank. Your role focuses on building up a responsible, trustworthy AI by spending prejudices. But as she found in “Kia's Next Big Drive” on the TNW founder Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, the tendency is a subjective term and must be defined for each individual and every company.

“The bias has no consistent definition. What I think is biased or impartial can be different from someone else. This is something that we as humans and individuals have to make.

Social norms and prejudices are not firm, but are constantly changing. While society is developing, the historical data we train our LLMs are not. We have to remain critical and the information we receive, whether from our fellow human beings or our machines in order to build up a fair and fairer society.

The scientific world tumbles. New discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope – A joint project by the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) – are not only surprising, they contradict our deepest assumptions about how the universe works.

Basically, it seems that the universe may not play according to the rules that we have mostly understood.

What could all this mean for space research, space technology and future deep tech? And what should Space Tech companies, inventors, investors and VC funds in Europe be considered as a result of the latest discoveries?

At Beyond the earth daresIt is all about startups that build rockets, AIS for satellites, roombootech and fusion breaks.

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But as a Space fanatic we also like to see deeper, beyond tables and pitches, into the places where the theory breaks and the secret begins.

Enter the 10 billion USD WebB telescope, which was sent to orbit from European space in French -Guayana to look at the oldest light in the universe. The machine introduced in 2021 has been fully functional since July 2022.

Webb is not just an upgrade from Hubble. It is a time machine, an infrared zeninel and – perhaps most important – a destroyer of comfortable scientific assumptions.

Thanks to his findings, it becomes clear that we are about to change theoretical physics and cosmology shortly before. Expect a wave of courageous new theories, revisions of textbooks and a new debate about everything, from gravity to the origin of the galaxies in the next few years.

Before we take into account the implications, we zoom in the big discoveries of WebB, the holes in the beats in what we know about the universe. Some of them trigger theoretical crises. Others could trigger completely new research and invention fields.

The greatest revolutions begin when the theory no longer matches data. This happened with quantum mechanics. With general theory of relativity. With DNA. And maybe with the WebB telescope.

Here are 10 of his discoveries that challenge our theories about the universe:

1. The universe is expanding faster than it should

We knew about the “Hubble tension“But WebB has just confirmed it precisely. After the mathematics, the universe is expanding 70–76 Kilometer per second per megaparsec (KM/S/MPC) – much faster than that 67 km/s/mpc Predicted by models based on the early universe (the cosmic microwave background). Translation? Something in our physics is wrong or at least incomplete. Optimization of dark energy? A new force? A misunderstood early universe? The door is open.

2. Galaxies grew up too quickly

WebB discovered adult, massive galaxies straight 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang. These things are as big as the Milky Way, but their early appearance contradicts established science. According to the standard cosmological models, you should simply not exist. Theories say that galaxies are growing slowly. The reality says: You got up quickly. Either we miss a trick – or the early universe was much more efficient than we thought.

3. Dark matter may be wrong – moon is right?

This is controversial: Webbs findings correspond more with Modified Newtonian dynamics (moon))) As the prevailing dark matter. Moon has long been the outsider of gravity theories. But if early galaxies are brighter and larger than expected – just like the moon predicted – we may have to rethink which invisible hand forms the cosmos.

4. Black holes were too ambitious

How do you get a black hole with 9 million solar masses only 570 million years after the Big Bang? Webb found that. This is astonishing, since according to current models in the early universe, according to current models, there was simply not enough time or material to grow such colossal black holes so quickly – which indicates either unknown physics or completely new formation routes. The black holes in some early galaxies are 1,000 x massive (compared to the galaxy) than those in today's universe. Either black holes were formed over an exotic mechanism – or they started as something larger than stars.

5. Complex chemistry? So early?

The galaxy Jades-GS-Z14-0 is only 300 million years old, but it is already rich in elements such as nitrogen that normally takes billions of years and several generations of stars to build up. How did these elements get there? Either the first stars formed and died Much faster than we thought or the Big Bang let us “prefabricated” than expected.

6. Stars with warp speed formed

Webb shows early galaxies as intensive, explosive star factories – a surprise for scientists. Models expected slow, gradual star formation. Instead, it is “huge balls of star formation”. Something – maybe a lack of dust or different physics – accelerated the timeline. And the models cannot keep up again.

7. Planetisms last longer than we thought

It was assumed that planet -forming windows quickly disappear by stars. But webb sees it at 20 to 30 million years. These are great news for the formation of exoplanets – and possibly for life. If planetary systems have more time to develop, life -friendly environments can be more common than we have ever dared to hope.

8. Galaxies were strange shaped

Half of the early galaxies looks like pool noodles or surf boards, not the small round blobs that we expected. The standard model says that the structure takes place later. But webbs shows us that galaxies were organized early – and we did not expect in shapes. Something about angle impulse and material dynamics in the early universe has to rethink.

9. Exoplanet atmosphere models are all wrong

WebB's ultra-specific spectroscopy showed that our models from Exoplanet Atmosphere cannot reliably distinguish between different types. This shakes everything, from habitability to the search for bisignatures. Basically, our “spectral fingerprints” are smeared – and it goes back to the drawing board.

10. The cosmic web was already there

Webb found a 3 million light year filament part of the Cosmic web – only 830 Millions of years after the Big Bang. This structure should take billions of years. Either the early universe quickly built things, or we generally misunderstood the timeline.

What does that mean for the Tech Ecosystem? For founders and VCS in Deep Tech, these results are not just a scientific trivia. They are early signals.

Europe's focus in the focus

In our view, Europe is uniquely positioned to guide the next wave of innovation that is triggered by James Webb's discoveries. The data streaming in has already catalyzed new research efforts in leading centers such as the maximum institutes of Germany, the University of Cambridge in Great Britain and ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

In the private sector, a new generation of European Deep -Tech startups is increasing to the challenge.

Space Forge (UK) develops reusable satellites in order to enable the production of progressive materials such as semiconductors into the room, which could drastically reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, which speaks to the climate crisis.

Bioorbit (UK) promotes the microgravitility capable of biologics against cancer, with some therapies of hospital-IV drops being shifted to self-governing injections at home and radically improve the access and comfort of the patient.

fly (Germany) uses a fleet of lidar-equipped satellites and drones to exactly monitor greenhouse gas emissions in real time-and support industries in compliance with increasingly strict EU regulations in order to report THG emissions.

European Deep -Tech companies are increasingly supported by Horizon Europe, the flagship and innovation program of the EU (2021–2027), with a total budget of € 95.5 billion. Horizon Europe supports high-risk, high-ranking projects in the areas of climate, digital and deep tech areas and serve as a critical bridge between border-scientific discoveries, as from YEWS and groundbreaking commercial applications.

In our understanding of the universe, gaps could open unexpected opportunities for the European deep tech. Just as Cern Europe put at the top of the energetic physics, Webb could become a launchpad for the continent's space tech industry.

The discoveries of WebB could trigger a new era of innovation by overturning everything we knew about the universe. If the early universe didn't expect anything, what could we be wrong about?

Could the laws of physics develop themselves? Are we missing hidden variables in space -time? Dark matter is an illusion and if so, what does galaxies really have? Could life be started earlier and more often than we imagine?

Each of these questions could unlock a new wave of basic physics, new technologies or even completely new startup categories. From quantum gravitational models to exotic materials to AI-designed cosmological simulations, there is space for founders to build on the edge of the secret.

What next? Potentially a new generation of inventions, investors and eye opening discoveries. Europe is ready to use.

By investing in deep tech, the continent can transform the revelations of WebB into commercial success and shape the future of science and society equally.

The subscription model loved by software now crept into cars.

Volkswagen is the youngest car manufacturer who takes over the price structure. The German brand has introduced a monthly subscription fee to access the full performance of some of its ID.3 electric vehicles.

Auto Express discovered That the Volkswagen ID.3 Pro and ProS in Great Britain were listed as a production of 201 PS, but were able to reach 228 hp – if the customers paid extra. For these additional 27 hp, buyers can pay £ 16.50 per month, £ 165 per year or £ 649 for a lifelong subscription that transmits by car when it is resold.

Volkswagen described the add-on as an “optional power supply upgrade”.

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“If customers want to have an even sportier driving experience, they now have the opportunity to do this in the course of the vehicle instead of determining with a higher initial purchase price from the start,” said the company in a statement.

Volkswagen is not the first car manufacturer that introduces intended subscription services. European brands particularly like to have the model, since BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Polestar offer all upgrades through monthly fees.

The companies argue that plans offer control, flexibility and ongoing updates. They also offer the car manufacturers the ongoing cash flow, uppseling options after purchase and a valuable source for customer data. Essentially, they transform cars in platforms – replicating a model that has become omnipresent in the software.

Gone are the days of unique payments for apps. Subscribers that were made popular in the early 2010s by Spotify, Netflix and Productivity apps are the dominant model today.

There is even one now Category of tools This canceled undesirable subscriptions. Of course they are available after subscription.

The collective costs of these services can add up to large sums. You can also have forever paid for things that we never own, depending on providers who can increase their prices or remove characteristics from a mood.

Of course, we just couldn't pay and lose access to all these services. Better still, we could trigger a good old -fashioned outcry. It worked for BMW customers, whose anger already led in their cars over monthly fees for heated seats, the company led to scraping the plans.

Alternatively, we could simply wait for the subscription to spread throughout our life until a Tech Lord begins to raise a monthly fee for the air that we breathe. I will vote with my wallet – and heroically comfortably protest from my keyboard.

There is no doubt that Europe has ambition. In the past ten years we have laid the basis for a flourishing digital economy, from regulatory management to technical reforms and rapidly growing regional hubs. But the infrastructure alone does not build up the future. People do it. And today we are faced with the very human challenge of how to win and keep the talent that leads to innovation.

We see highly qualified people such as founders, engineers and product managers, move their operations or careers in the USA and in some cases in Asia. This trend reflects global competition in its violent role. But it is also a moment to think about what is clearly able to win and keep the technical talent that it takes.

Why talent moves – and why that is not the whole story

Talent follows opportunities in a deeply connected global market. For example, the USA offer capital in a scale that is still difficult to reach in Europe. Startups can grow on its uniform domestic market without navigating the complex regulatory limits that we often find in Europe. In areas such as KI and Deep Tech, there are simply more large -scale deployments and resources to gain engineers who are hungry for limits.

But talent doesn't just move in one direction. Many entrepreneurs return with sharper skills to not only build European activities, but also to combine with a feeling of home and achieve a better balance between work and life. The founders are increasingly building cross -border teams and leading products and engineering from Europe and at the same time scaling sales or partnerships worldwide.

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Europe is facing a test for its competitiveness and its trust in the global struggle for talent. I think we cannot fulfill this test by imitation of other ecosystems, but focus on what distinguishes us.

Sweden as a showcase of European strength

Sweden offers a strong example of the strengths of Europe. With 41 unicornsIt is one of the top 10 countries worldwide. Stockholm, his capital, is Second, only for Silicon Valley in unicorns per capita. Startups from Sweden have scaled worldwide and have been rooted in a strong local ecosystem.

What made this possible is not only capital, but also from a culture of trust, digital willingness, an innovative infrastructure and long -term investments in education. University education is for EU citizens without tuition fees, and digital public services such as E-ID have long been integrated into everyday life. There is a consistent agreement between the public and the private sector in supporting entrepreneurship.

This type of foundation guarantees no success, but it creates a platform for the growth of talents – and remains. And Sweden is not alone to promote these conditions. On the continent, cities such as Tallinn, Lisbon, Berlin and Málaga develop technical ecosystems that are rooted in local strengths and specializations and transform them into hubs for talent.

The strengths of Europe are structurally and undervalued

Europe is often quite-criticized in order to be over-regulated, with guidelines that slow down product cycles or can give start-ups complexity. However, these standards also serve a deeper purpose: the trust that is desired by modern consumers and talents.

In addition, Europe invests early and fairly in its population. Many countries offer universal health care, subsidized childcare and free or inexpensive training, which reduces the personal financial risk of starting or joining a startup. For employees, this creates a broader feeling of security and support that goes beyond the workplace. This stability can be invaluable and more people give freedom to take sensible entrepreneurial risks.

Europe tends to promote a different growth environment for startups than other global markets. With less access to hyper scale capital, companies often grow at a conscious pace than their American colleagues. A stronger occupational safety and more awareness of the footprint of a startup can also address talent to seek more than just quick outputs. For many builders today, sustainability is not just about metrics, but about values.

Of course, the picture is not perfect. Fragmented regulation in the EU member states, limited access to growth capital in the late stage and complex cross-border setting of cross-border. All generate friction. In the past few months we have seen that companies, especially in FinTech, have tightened the operation or moving of capital to the USA, since global investors are looking for faster returns and predictable scaling environments. These dynamic risks that push the top talents out of Europe.

But these challenges are not insoluble – and there are no reasons to be pessimistic. They are signaled that we have to develop faster, bold and with a greater feeling of cohesion on the continent.

What Europe has to do next

In order to prevent these forces from leading the talent, the first step is to regain the narrative. Europe is not a junior partner for global innovation. It already runs in areas such as open banking, green technology and digital services for privacy. Instead of formulating all regulation as a burden, we should position certain key regulations as a competitive advantage. It creates stability and transparency that increasingly appreciate today's talent and investors. If we want the next generation of entrepreneurs to build up here, they have to believe in the vision, and it starts how we tell our history.

Second, Europe has to tackle its regulatory fragmentation if it wants to unlock its full innovation potential. While our diversity is a strength, inconsistent rules in the Member States – from tax and labor law to data conformity and licensing – friction for startups that are to be operated across borders. This patchwork forces the founders to choose between cities if they are able to build seamlessly throughout the block. A stronger harmonization of startup-relevant guidelines and more integrated financing mechanisms in the markets would give Europe a coherent innovation room for technical talents than a patchwork of jurisdiction.

The continent must also invest in native innovation, keep ownership of its digital core infrastructure and protect its intellectual property. This requires a stronger financing environment in the late stage, more ambitious public-private f & e-initiatives and long-term support for innovative companies. It means continued to build on what makes Europe unique. In order to deepen the talent pool, long -term thinking, the inclusiveness and responsibility of the continent should be used as competitive strengths, not just as a soft ideal.

A technical ecosystem that is worth it built and remain for

Talent not only follows money – it also follows the meaning. Today's innovators want to work in environments in which they can have real effects. You are looking for flexibility, diversity, trust and purpose. Europe is uniquely positioned to meet these expectations – if it is hugged what it does. In a changing and uncertain world, Europe remains a stable democracy and offers a certain level of security that can attract investor interests and capital.

This is not a game with zero sums and talent that goes abroad does not mean that Europe loses. However, if we want to be a global innovation leader in the coming decade, we have to stand up for our values, remove barriers and tell our own story more effectively. If we do this, we can make Europe a place where first -class talent not only begins, but also heard.

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Crypto crashes Money launderingAnd digital fraud – the financial guards of the EU had enough. The supervisory authorities must keep pace through the introduction of strict regulations to strengthen consumer protection and stabilize the market.

When the legislators of the EU fear for the protection of consumers, others fear that they are suffocating growth. A typical example: in 2024 the FCA with a fine of HSBC £ 6.2 million In order not to properly treat customers in financial difficulties. The supervisory authorities defend the public, but would have been easier, HSBC would have more creative solutions for their customers, such as:

Banks were afraid of researching innovative embedded credit solutions, so to speak, so to speak, so to speak 15% more likely to receive formal enforcement measures. In August 2024 HSBC decided The advantages were worth the compliance fight.

While some argue that the regulation can hinder the innovation – for companies who hesitate to invest in operation due to increasing surveillance – others indicate that additional regulation will increase innovation and thus see the regulation as an important driver of their growth. So who is right?

Break off the youngest EU -fintech regulations

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Lately, some new regulations have come into force in the EU, which have mainly affected FinTechs.

DoraImplemented in January 2025, it requires that EU-based financial institutions (FIS) implement processes and structures to help them react to ICT-related disorders and to recover from ICT-related disorders and to offer them additional digital resistance. In addition the Amla is introduced to give the governments more assurance in combating money laundering.

Dora and the AMLA apply to all FIS and their products and processes, but leave crypto outside of their scope. That is where mica Come in. In December 2024, Mica was drafted into the protection of individual crypto users.

The EU's regulatory agenda – especially when the introduction of Mica, Dora and AMLA – is about tightening the supervision. However, it is also part of a wider strategy for simplification and harmonizing the regulations and stabilizes the EU financial markets as a whole. The latest decisions are a sensitive balance between calming consumers and supervisory authorities and the burden on the regulated FIS.

A new series of regulations may seem contradictory to the so -called resistors competitiveness – published in January by the European Commission – including initiatives for simplification and effective implementation of EU law. However, these laws aim to replace fragmented national rules with uniform EU-wide framework conditions, which makes compliance clearer, faster and more predictable.

Since the ecosystem for digital finances continues to accelerate, Mica, Dora and Amla form a comprehensive framework. Overall, they want to reconcile innovations with financial stability, consumer protection and security in the entire Fintech sector.

Will these updates support FinTech and Banking or support slow innovations?

This answer depends on the perspective. The latest EU regulations can slow down innovation at short notice, especially for the larger and well-established FIS-like banks, but the future prospects look more fertile. These new rules should support long -term stability.

Since these three regulations in the Member States require full harmonization, they will reduce the fragmentation and regulatory arbitrage. A larger and more uniform market will promote cross -border activities, innovations and competitiveness between fintechs and related service providers. The regulations also support the creation of better, more transparent products and services, which increases the trust of consumers and regulatory authority and ultimately increases the introduction of customers.

In short, this environment offers smaller and more agile fintechs more opportunities to scale and compete in the long term. For consumers and companies, compliance with the latest regulations leads to more reliable and resilient services that are urgently needed for essential functions such as digital payments and lending.

These new regulations vote on competitive conditions and encourage traditional banks and fintechs not only to move the regulatory strengths. In addition, a stable and secure financial system increases the attractiveness of the EU as a hub for digital financial services, which will help to make the union more attractive than the USA for new investors and innovations.

What investments will these new standards meet?

Additional investments in governance and compliance structures are required. Larger, more established players may have difficulty implementing the necessary regulatory changes in their extensive processes and products. People with existing compliance and governance processes will probably find the transition more seamless, while smaller fintechs may have to build them up from scratch. The costs of their implementation are a potential hurdle.

Navigation conformity is often an important challenge for fintech startups and other smaller players. You have to invest in knowledge, including the correct implementation of regulatory requirements in your processes and product designs and translate them into operational business processes.

In addition, investments in technology must be made, since companies have to meet customer requirements in terms of transparency and language. For example, stricter requirements for money laundering (anti-money laundering) require changes in the tools “Customed Your Customer (KYC) and transaction monitoring.

Compliance with the Dora regulation framework, however, is the largest investment in technology, since the digital operational resilience requires more robust safety, backup and test methods. The long -term payment is clear when working with partners who have a fluid compliance.

The new financial model: Legacy institutions meet agile innovators

New technology has changed the way people interact with financial services, promote the growth of fintechs and increase rivalry with established banks. A report found that 36% Of 18-24 year olds, FinTech platforms would select conventional financial institutions. FinTechs' Agility, is based on modern tech stacks and slim teams and enables them to react quickly to the change in consumer needs and market trends – a strong contrast to the old infrastructure that slows down the traditional banks.

In order for both the old and the new political groups to be successful in the developing regulatory landscape of Europe, traditional institutions and digital native disruptors must depend on alliances. Effective partnerships between fintechs, banks and FIS in accordance with the new EU regulations will be based on the mutual exertion in order to improve compliance with compliance, increase innovations and to strengthen surgical resilience. These collaborations are the key to navigating complex regulations and at the same time offer safe, innovative financial services.

FinTechs, FIS, customers and dealers can also benefit from Baas partnerships (Banking-A-Service). For example, in the event of embedded loans, banks that work with technology providers can quickly become new income options in order to achieve new and existing customers outside the direct scope of the bank and thus try to keep up with FinTech competitors without building their own technology in the in-house.

Actually, 41% FIS has already implemented embedded financial solutions, and almost 50% have expanded their Baas functions. Dealers then receive convenient and safe access to regulated, safe and innovative financial products from a trustworthy bank.

Another possibility of how banks and fintechs can increase innovation and at the same time participate in compliance with the collaborative models, including participation in regulatory sand boxes. These controlled environments can support the examination of new financial products and services within the framework of the supervisory authorities and offer a balance between innovation and regulation for regulation.

The new EU financial wave is not just about tightening control, but part of a greater advance of simplifying and combining rules throughout Europe. By uniforming patchwork national laws with consistent EU-wide standards, compliance with compliance is easier to follow and predict. This uniformity and predictability can help promote innovations and at the same time to focus on the protection of consumers and the financial stability. While Fintech and Banks work together, the future of digital finances in Europe is open, safer, more reliable and integrative.

Es ist Erntetag am Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Als Sunshine den Campus der Gutey University badet, arbeiten Wissenschaftler in den Labors unter kühlem fluoreszierendem Licht. In grüner Schutzausrüstung gekleidet und neigen akribisch dazu, Röhrchen in hermetisch versiegelten Reinräumen zu testen. Die Behälter halten die Früchte der heutigen Arbeit: mesenchymale Stammzellen (MSCs).

Jede Zelle ist kaum ein Viertel der Breite eines menschlichen Haares, führt jedoch eine bemerkenswerte Kraft aus. MSCs reduzieren Entzündungen, reparieren beschädigtes Gewebe und modulieren das Immunsystem. Sie können chronische Krankheiten behandeln und das Altern verzögern. Sie können sogar Krankheiten verhindern, bevor sie beginnt. Um jedoch eine Hauptstütze der modernen Gesundheitsversorgung zu werden, müssen MSCs erschwinglich und zuverlässig im Maßstab produziert werden.

Das schien bis vor kurzem eine entfernte Aussicht zu sein, aber die Karolinska -Wissenschaftler glauben, dass es sich der Realität nähert. Sie arbeiten für CellColabs, ein schwedisches Startup, das sich gebildet hat, um die globale Knappheit von Stammzellbehandlungen anzugehen.

CellColabs glaubt, dass dieser Mangel bald überwunden werden könnte. Dank einer Mischung aus wissenschaftlichen, regulatorischen und technologischen Fortschritten kunden MSCs auf den Verbrauchermarkt aus. Innerhalb des nächsten Jahrzehnts zielt CellColabs darauf ab, die Preise um bis zu 90%zu senken.

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Im Labor sieht der Fortschritt beeindruckend aus. Die jüngste Ernte, die aus einer einzigen Spende kultiviert wurde, hat 4,1 Milliarden Zellen für bis zu 200 Standarddosen ausreichend.

Der CEO von CellColabs, Dr. Mattias Bernow, ist in einer lebhaften Stimmung. Der 43-Jährige sieht den heutigen Anbau nur einen Vorgeschmack auf das, was kommen wird.

“Ich glaube wirklich, dass wir uns an einem Wendepunkt in der Geschichte der Medizin befinden”, sagt er.

Die Kraft von MSCs

MSCs existieren natürlich im Körper. Ein typischer Mensch enthält Milliarden davon. Sie verhalten sich wie eine Reparaturmannschaft und reparieren und stimmen unsere Innenseiten ein. Sie können auch extrahiert, multipliziert und in medizinische Behandlungen verwandelt werden.

Karolinska war der Ort eines der größten Meilensteine des Feldes. 2012 verlieh seine Nobelversammlung John Gurdon und Shinya Yamanaka den Nobelpreis für Physiologie oder Medizin. Sie entdeckten, dass reife Zellen pluripotent gemacht werden können – in der Lage, fast jeder Zelltyp im Körper zu werden. Der Durchbruch hat die Regeln der regenerativen Medizin neu geschrieben, wodurch frische regulatorische Impuls und schnelle Stammzelltherapien zündeten.

MSCs gehören zu den vielversprechendsten Beispielen. Wenn sie injiziert werden, geben sie Signale frei, die Heilung auslösen. Der Körper repariert sich dann.

Sie können unzählige Erkrankungen behandeln, von Arthritis und Herzerkrankungen bis hin zu Immunstörungen. Aber zuerst müssen Sie eine kleine Probe aus einem lebendigen, atmenden Menschen extrahieren.

CellColabs bezieht seine MSCs aus dem Knochenmark gesunder Spender im Alter von 18 bis 30 Jahren. Nur 50 Milliliter – über ein Schnapsglas – produziert bis zu 200 Dosen. Das Mark regeneriert sich natürlich in sechs bis acht Wochen.

Der Spendenprozess ist schnell und minimal invasiv, aber die Massenproduktion ist notorisch herausfordernd. MSCs sind lebende Zellen, die eine komplexe Bioperation, sorgfältige Handhabung und strenge Qualitätskontrolle erfordern, was die Skalierung zu einer gewaltigen Aufgabe macht.

CellColabs sieht dennoch die Produktion in der Industrie im Horizont-vor allem der Pionierforschung von Professor Katarina Le Blanc.

Die wegweisenden Arbeiten von Le Blanc zeigten, dass MSCs entzündliche und Immunkrankheiten bekämpfen konnten. Ihre Ergebnisse zeigten auch, dass gespendete Zellen für den therapeutischen Gebrauch geeignet waren – ein entscheidender Schritt für die Kommerzialisierung.

Sie half bei der Erstellung von Produktionsstandards in klinischer Qualität und ebnete den Weg für groß angelegte Studien und den breiteren therapeutischen Gebrauch. Ihre Forschungen legten die Grundlagen für Bernows Wendepunkt.

“Dies ist keine Gehirnoperation oder Raketenwissenschaft, aber es sind Stammzellen – also ist es ziemlich nah”, sagt er. “Es ist super komplex. Und der einzige Grund, warum wir dies tun und uns so schnell bewegen können, ist die Forschung von Professor Le Blanc.”

Als Hämatologe untersuchte Le Blanc das Potenzial von MSCs zur Unterstützung von Blutkrebspatienten. Ihre frühe klinische Arbeit konzentrierte sich auf die Erkrankung der Transplantat-gegen-Wirt-Erkrankung-eine schwere und oft tödliche Komplikation von Knochenmarktransplantationen. In einer kleinen Studie verabreichte ihr Team Patienten, die nicht auf Standardtherapien reagiert hatten, MSCs. Der Einfluss war auffällig: Mehr als die Hälfte der Teilnehmer überlebte. “Das gesamte Feld hat nur in die Luft gesprengt”, sagt Bernow.

Le Blanc drückte weiter in Neuland. Ein Versuch reparierte Stimmfalten und restaurierte die Sprache mit minimaler Narben. Eine andere Studie verwendete MSCs bei COVID-19-Patienten, um Entzündungen zu verringern. Die Ergebnisse waren vielversprechend – aber sie traf eine Mauer. “Sie hat die Zellen ausgelöst”, sagt Bernow.

Skalierung wurde zu einem neuen Fokus. Um den Zugang zur Behandlung zu erweitern, um den Zugang zu den Behandlungen zu erweitern, spendete Le Blanc 2021 ihre Forschung an CellColabs. Zwei Jahre später erhielt die Karolinska -Einrichtung die Genehmigung der Produktion.

Die Produktionskosten sind seitdem rasant gesunken und die Hoffnungen auf eine zehnfache Reduzierung. Wenn die Preise sinken und die Ausgangsskalen senken, hat Bernow seine Augen auf ein Ziel: „Der Zugang zu Stammzellen zu demokratisieren.“

Nach Zauber als ER -Arzt, Beraterin und Startup -Gründerin, Mattias Bernow, schloss sich 2021 Zellcolabs an. Credit: CellColabs

Eine neue Welt der Behandlungen

Zurück im Labor führt CPO Lina Sörvik eine Tour durch die Einrichtungen. Zuvor war sie eine ältere Figur in Big Pharma und trat CellColabs bei, nachdem sie vom Potenzial von MSCs fasziniert war.

„Ich ließ mich von dem inspirieren, was sie tun konnten, und von der Idee, eine Einrichtung zu erstellen, um sie zu produzieren“, sagt sie.

An einem Erntetag beginnt die Arbeit ihres Teams um 7:00 Uhr. Wissenschaftler ziehen die volle Schutzausrüstung an und verbringen den Tag damit, in den Karolinska -Reinräumen zu arbeiten. Sobald sie die MSCs geerntet haben, werden die Zellen auf Qualität getestet und für zukünftige Verwendung eingefroren.

Der Bereich ihrer Anwendungen ist umfangreich. Patienten mittleren Alters können sich von Gelenkschmerzen und Verletzungen lindern. Sportler können ihre Erholung von Verletzungen beschleunigen. Ältere Menschen konnten ihre Alterung verlangsamen.

Brian Johnson, ein Tech -Unternehmer und Promi -Anwalt für Langlebigkeit, hat ebenfalls ihre Kräfte untersucht. Er ließ 300 Millionen MSCs von CellColabs produziert, die in die Knie, Schultern und Hüften injiziert wurden.

Bernow lobt die Vielfalt der Behandlungen. Er sagt, dass MSCs “für fast jeden Hinweis” interessant sind.

Sein Weg zu ihnen war kurvenreich. Bernow wurde in Malmö im Südwesten Schwedens aufgewachsen und zog in die Hauptstadt des Landes, um an der Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) zu studieren.

“Zu dieser Zeit wollte jeder in London Banker werden”, erinnert er sich. “Das war nicht die Zukunft, die ich für mich selbst gesehen habe.”

Er erweiterte sein Studium und machte einen medizinischen Abschluss am Karolinska Institute und einen MSC von SSE. Nachdem er als klinischer Arzt und Verwaltungsberater gearbeitet hatte, war er Mitbegründer von Doctrin, einer digitalen Gesundheitsplattform. Dann rief CellColabs an: Das Führungsteam brauchte einen CEO und sah Bernow als perfekte Passform.

“Ich wusste, dass es mehr Blut, Schweiß und Tränen sein würde”, sagt er. “Aber je mehr ich las, desto faszinierter wurde ich.”

Was ihn am meisten faszinierte, war das Potenzial von MSCs, chronische Erkrankungen zu behandeln – die häufigste Todesursache der Welt. “Deshalb denke ich, dass wir wirklich an einem Wendepunkt in der Geschichte der Medizin sind.”

Die neuen Antibiotika?

Bernow teilt gerne ein Zitat von Joseph Martin, dem ehemaligen Dekan der Harvard Medical School: “Stammzelltherapien haben das Potenzial für chronische Krankheiten, was Antibiotika für Infektionskrankheiten getan haben.”

Es ist ein mutiger Vergleich. Bevor Alexander Fleming 1928 Penicillin entdeckte, könnten kleinere Infektionen tödlich sein. Gesunde Menschen starben jung oder schnell gealtert.

Ein Jahrhundert später ließen uns Antibiotika länger leben, ein besseres Leben. Infektionskrankheiten sind nicht mehr die Hauptursachen für Todesursachen. Sie wurden durch chronische Erkrankungen wie Herzerkrankungen, Schlaganfall, Alzheimer, Parkinson und Diabetes ersetzt. Wir leben jetzt auch mit altersbedingten Krankheiten, die die Lebensqualität stark verringern.

Laut Bernow kann MSCs dazu beitragen, die wachsende Belastung durch chronische Krankheiten zu lindern. “Aber als Arzt finde ich am interessantesten das Potenzial, den Auftreten von Krankheiten zu verhindern oder zumindest zu verzögern.”

Er erinnert sich an seine Zeit in der Notaufnahme und behandelte Herzpatienten. Ein typischer Fall war ein Mann mittleren Alters, der gerade sein erstes Herzereignis erlitten hatte, das jetzt zu einer geringeren Qualität und möglicherweise kürzer war. MSCs hätten dieses Ergebnis verändern können.

Ihre regenerativen und entzündungshemmenden Kräfte könnten die Genesung unterstützen-oder sogar das Ereignis insgesamt verhindern.

Um dieses Potenzial zu erreichen, zielt CellColabs auf einen neuen Launchpad für Skala: Bioreaktoren.

Skalierung für die Zukunft

In den Karolinska -Reinräumen wächst CellColabs derzeit MSCs auf flachen Oberflächen im Zellmedium. Bioreaktoren bieten ein vielversprechendes Upgrade.

Indem sie stark wachsende Kultivierungsoberflächen und automatisierte, streng kontrollierte Wachstumsbedingungen ermöglichen, könnten sie die Produktion weit über das, was mit den heutigen Methoden möglich ist, überschreiten.

Bioreaktoren können viele der derzeit in den Reinräumen verwendeten manuellen Methoden ersetzen. Kredit: CellColabs

CellColabs entwickelt seine Bioreaktorplattform mit dem Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Bernow erwartet, dass es die Produktion transformiert und die MSC -Ausgabe um ein Vielfaches vervielfacht.

Der vollständige Start ist für 2028 geplant. Bis dahin hofft CellColabs auch über überzeugende neue Beweise für die Vorteile von MSCs.

Das Startup ist derzeit an vielversprechenden Tests auf den Bahamas und Abu Dhabi beteiligt. Beide Standorte haben progressive, patientenfreundliche und ethisch regulierte Rahmenbedingungen für MSC-Studien erstellt, die sie in der Branche zurückgelegt haben.

An ihren Teststellen untersuchen Wissenschaftler Behandlungen für eine Vielzahl von Erkrankungen: Verletzungen des Bewegungsapparates, Knieosteoarthritis, kardiovaskuläres Risiko, Arthritis und altersbedingte Gebrechlichkeit.

In kleineren Territorien wie diesen ist es einfacher, die medizinischen Vorschriften für aufstrebende Therapien zu aktualisieren. Wenn sie erfolgreich sind, erwartet Bernow, dass andere Nationen ihrer Führung folgen und ihre Unterstützung für MSCs beschleunigen. Die potenziellen Vorteile, so argumentiert er, sind enorm.

Er stellt sich vor, dass die winzigen Zellen die Gesundheitssysteme von reaktiv auf vorbeugendem reagieren und die Kosten senken und gleichzeitig chronische Erkrankungen in Angriff nehmen können. Unser Leben würde nicht nur länger wachsen – sie wären gesünder und glücklicher.

Bernow stellt einen Kontrast zu den jüngsten Fortschritten in der westlichen Medizin. Wir leben länger, aber unsere späteren Jahre werden oft durch Gebrechlichkeit, Krankheit und ein begrenzter Existenz beeinträchtigt.

“Wir haben Jahre mit der Qualität der niedrigeren Lebensqualität hinzugefügt”, sagt er. “Wenn Stammzellen chronische Erkrankungen auftreten können, können wir unsere gesunde Lebensdauer verlängern.”

Das heißt nicht, dass MSCs einen Jugendbrunnen schaffen. Sie werden unser Leben nicht für immer erweitern, aber sie verbessern die Zeit, die wir haben, dramatisch.

“Ich möchte die ersten 100 Jahre damit verbringen, hoch aktiv und mit meiner Familie zu sein – mit meinen Kindern, meinen Enkelkindern und vielleicht sogar meinen Urenkel -Enkelkindern.”

They have spent a lifelong structure of skills, learned lessons, promotes relationships and developed a perspective that is as forward -looking and powerful as their personal drive. You have poured everything into your business. Now they have five minutes (or less) to communicate an irresistible vision for the world and to convince a group of viewed – and sometimes disrespectful – judges that they can make the vision real and make some money. How you do that?

A pitch competition is a unique moment: I set myself up, judged and organized in Miami to Mongolia. I am an entrepreneur and investor and I spent a decade to fight for “Shark Tank” and other business television shows. Every year I meet thousands of entrepreneurs around the world, rated their companies and help them prepare for their big moment.

I organized the Pitch battle at the TNW conference in June. The competition – won by Dutch startup Tap Electric has highlighted the history of a founder. Regardless of whether you throw the sharks at a tech conference or rock the stage, you will find some key elements here that make a pitch successful:

Annoy

Yes, nerves. While many people devote time and money to overcome and outperformance nerves, I think that nerves are a critical element for a successful pitch. Why? Nerves mean that they are interested. Some people are afraid to speak publicly, others have met from the moment and what could mean financing or exposure to their business, and nobody wants to submit a service that does not submit resonance. These are all reasons to take care of the field. These are all reasons to feel something – before, during and after.

Entrepreneurs who open up to the promise, intensity and the excitement of the moment create the possibility that these feelings will encourage a passionate pitch. The feeling of feeling the moment without being consumed from the moment is a key element for a successful pitch.

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Research

A successful pitch begins long before you step on the stage. Do you know your audience and your judges. Find out who will be in the room, what it is important to you and how you are rated. In practice, this means researching the background and motivations of the judges. A Angel investor can prioritize the traction or the business model, while a company sponsor may pay attention to strategic orientation. Other judges can address companies that can “do” with the funds provided or resources.

Don't try to record everyone at once. Go to the group that is most important for this competition and give them confidence in your understanding of the market, your motivations and how you can progress.

Regardless of the phase in which your business is in your company, tell your history and clearly articulate how to use the available resources and/or be asked to achieve KPIs that use the judges and the overall competition.

First paint a living picture of the pain point. Then explain how your product or service appeals to this problem in a new way and highlights every unique technology or a unique approach. Next, emphasize examples of real world or user stories to make it accessible.

Finally, define the market chance across the entire addressable market (TAM). Yes, decision -makers want to know that their company has the market potential to grow and scale. In addition, the judges want to know how to use the available resources to reach and convert the market.

What do the resources that are available to the winner of the competition mean in relation to customer touchpoints? What do the points of contact in relation to conversions mean? What do the conversions mean in terms of top line revenue? And what does this turnover mean for the way to profitability?

audience

Connect with the audience. Let yourself be fueled by your energy. Invite them to take part. If you establish a real connection with your audience, you can distinguish yourself. Bring energy and enthusiasm to the stage. Smile, make eye contact and move with purpose. These simple actions make a formal pitch into an appealing conversation.

Invite the audience to get in touch early and often with you and your business. Ask a question, weave up in a call and reaction, set a hands exhibition, share left-hand-all these parts can drive the commitment beyond the pitch.

Instead of memorizing your pitch to memorize you to be ready for the unexpected. Bad luck, as if they are telling a friend an exciting story instead of reading foils. This real connection and eye contact, enthusiasm and a two-way feeling vibrate your message.

Questions

They would be surprised at how many entrepreneurs start their business without having a clearly defined question. As a business owner, you should ask about every audience that you imagine. It is up to you to know which resources are needed to bring your company to the next stage and ask about these resources.

Do not leave the most important part as a surprise – always indicate a clear, specific question. Your questions are central to the Pitch and it Tell the judges exactly what they need and why.

If the competition has defined price amounts or other resources, enter these resources in the ASK. Let the judges and the audience know that you have thought about how you can build your business in a practical way with this competition.

If, as is so often the case, your company needs additional means or resources that go beyond the available people during the competition, mention this broader one. Explain how the resources from the competition support their persecution of these resources.

Contents

A good pitch is not a single moment. Documenting the preparation, pitch and the results can be an incredible way to connect with your audience. By creating clips and other content from your field, you can set your business to the stage long after stopping the microphone.

Treat the entire process as valuable content. Document everything: your application, your acceptance in the competition (a service on and for yourself), preparatory work, exercise sessions, final foils and even your nerves!

Write down your exercise height on video whenever possible so that you can refine your delivery and later reuse clips. Save your pitch deck, photos and videos after the event. These materials become marketing gold. Take the polished two- to three-set “Elevator Pitch” and use it in e-mail newsletters, on your website or in social media posts.

Write a short blog or a LinkedIn contribution about your Pitch experience -what you have learned, the result and all other knowledge you have gained. Keep your community up to date: This visibility can attract customers, partners and even future investors. Use social media and other channels to strengthen your history.

A winner is based on preparation, clarity and connection. Explore your judges, tell a crispy story, get involved with your audience, specifically stand up for the resources and the strategy, ask a confident and relevant question and then make them a presentation in many convincing content.

These elements work together to make their pitch unforgettable and effective. A pitch, including them, can charge a company and accelerate its way to growth.

Imagine drones that map disaster zones today and scouns military destinations tomorrow. Or seismic activity sensors that were built for construction work, recognize the U boats under water. These ideas represent the promise of double use technologies that serve both civil and military purposes. For the first time, the European Commission expressly proposes to finance them through programs such as Horizon Europe. But while we are working for two use technologies, we are faced with a crucial choice: Do you continue the old model, in which military applications drive innovations that the civilians later accept or turn this paradigm upside down?

The technological innovation has long followed a well -tried path: military development drives up the development of civil applications as a subsequent thought. Consider GPS, probably one of the most successful double use technologies in history. It was originally developed in the 1970s by the US Department of Defense and developed for military positioning and navigation. Civil access was restricted by “selective availability” – a feature that intentionally deteriorated the accuracy in order to preserve the advantage of the military.

The full potential of GPS was not realized until the deactivation of the selective availability in 2000 decades and immediately made it ten times more precise for civilian users. It quickly became a technology that most of us rely on every day and triggered innovations that converted industries into transport from agriculture. A 2019 study from the National Institute for Standards and Technology (Nist) An estimated that the GPS generated 1.4 trillion dollars of economic advantages.

As we have seen at GPS, this military approach has dominated innovation financing for decades. However, there is mandatory evidence that the approaches to civilian initial approaches to two use technologies better and ultimately more robust solutions for all applications generate more military.

The traditional model overlooks a critical reality: civil markets offer both scale and diversity of applications that drive innovation in a way that the more specialized military sector cannot keep up. This pattern is repeated across technological areas. Internet protocols developed for military communication found their greatest development in civil applications before returning to improve military systems. The commercial drone industry accelerated the air innovation in the air, far beyond what could only achieve military procurement.

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By concentrating on civilian application cases, innovation can use larger markets, more diverse applications and faster development cycles. If technologies are developed taking into account broad civilian applications, you benefit from scale effects that only military development cannot achieve.

This is partly due to the fact that civil innovation is exposed to fewer bureaucratic restrictions. Military procurement cycles can include years or even decades, while civilian markets reward agility and fast iteration. Due to the development of civilians, the technologies can develop and mature faster than would be possible with traditional procurement time plans for defense.

The most promising breakthroughs duplicate uses more from coping with basic technical challenges than from specific operating functions. When innovators concentrate closely on military operations, they often miss the wider potential of their technologies. Scientific potential is not abstract; It only becomes real by implementing.

The challenge of developing robust navigation systems that work without GPS is a perfect example. A solution with which delivery drones to reliably navigate urban environments, revolutionize logistics and at the same time provide the skills that are decisive for defense operations. By highlighting civilian applications and at the same time recognizing potential military uses, we create space for innovations that could otherwise never appear.

Research From the European Commission for the introduction of a military tech aspect in the successor to the Horizon Europe, it found that academic and research institutions would prefer to adhere to the status quo and to keep F&E financing in Europe exclusively in civilian technologies. By providing financing routes that respect these preferences, we expand the talent pool and provide critical technological challenges. In view of the financial tribes and political pressure in the US high school formation, Europe could attract top innovators from the entire Atlantic by creating an environment that matches its basic values.

Since Europe is intensifying its focus on strategic autonomy and technological sovereignty, two use technologies will play an increasingly important role. The latest steps of the EU to enable an important shift in our innovation through programs such as Horizon Europe to enable double usage financing. However, since these initiatives take shape, you have to avoid simply replicated the traditional military model.

By priorizing and recognizing civilian applications, we can use market forces, attract various talents and produce more robust technologies for all applications.

In order for double development to be really durable, civil and military technologies can no longer be searched-we have to bridge the gap between the civilians of the first F&E and the military applications. In view of the gap that exists between the way these two sectors work, this must be an active process. The initiation of more open exchange of knowledge would better use insights and knowledge from both worlds. For bodies that focus on military technology, it is time to incubate a civilian equivalent. Conversely, organizations such as Mine – Sprind, the German Federal Authority for Disruptive Innovations – should concentrate on civilian technology, and also investigate military applications.

The challenges that we stand – from climate change and energy safety to the resilience of the supply chain – require technological solutions that serve several purposes. The old dichotomy between civil and military innovation is increasingly out of date in a world in which the most powerful technologies inevitably serve both domains. The transformative double usage technologies of tomorrow are closer than we think, what do we think about today on civil applications.