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European Innovation Act

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Innovative companies are crucial for Europe’s competitiveness and economic security, while contributing to the green and digital transitions. However, they still face several barriers affecting their growth in the EU, including also difficulties in accessing private capital. Therefore, the initiative aims at creating an innovation-friendly level playing field for innovative companies in the Single Market, which is at the same time attractive for investors and customers.

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EUROPEAN TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION, 3 Oct 2025

The ETUC reply to this OPC on the European Innovation Act focuses in particular on three areas in the questionnaire. Firstly, on the possible EU definitions for innovative companies, start-ups & scaleups, the ETUC considers that eventual benefits of any EU definition will largely depend on the…

EuroCommerce urges EU to recognize retail as innovation driver

EuroCommerce, 30 Sept 2025

The organization requests better recognition of retail's role in driving innovation, improved access to finance with clearer guidance, and support for AI skills development. They emphasize retail's strategic position with 5 million businesses contributing 10% of EU GDP.
This would enable the sector to accelerate AI adoption and digital transformation.

Tech industry urges EU to prioritize commercialization over research funding

DIGITALEUROPE, 3 Oct 2025

The organization wants funding to cover the full innovation cycle, with targeted support at technology readiness levels 5-6. They request simplified rules, expanded equity partnerships, and harmonized startup definitions. Funding rules must cover operational costs for cloud and cybersecurity, not just capital expenditure.
This would reduce compliance costs and allow tech companies to access public funding for their business models.
Traditional research institutions lose funding priority as resources shift toward market-ready commercialization.

Pharma industry urges EU to strengthen IP protections and simplify regulations

European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, 2 Oct 2025

The organization requests stronger IP protections, simplified legislation across health and chemical regulations, expanded sandboxes for innovation, and better access to capital for all company sizes. They argue the consultation favors small companies but ecosystems need all actors to translate ideas into patient treatments.
This would attract more investment to Europe and help them compete with US and China.

BASF Urges Faster Market Access and Reduced Regulation for Innovation

BASF SE, 30 Sept 2025

BASF requests streamlined permitting for pilot plants, outcome-based rather than prescriptive regulation, and protection of intellectual property rights. They emphasize the need for faster product approvals and reduced bureaucracy, arguing that regulatory complexity hinders innovation more than lack of funding does.
This would accelerate their product development and reduce compliance costs and documentation burdens.

Bayer demands innovation stress test to accelerate EU approvals

Bayer AG, 3 Oct 2025

Bayer requests an Innovation Stress Test to ensure regulations enable rather than constrain R&D. They want EU-level regulatory sandboxes, faster permitting processes, and streamlined financing access. The company seeks targeted support for innovation hubs and sector-specific investment incentives.
This would reduce regulatory burdens and speed market entry where approvals are significantly faster globally.
Consumer and environmental groups lose stronger oversight of agricultural and pharmaceutical products.

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BNP PARIBAS, 1 Oct 2025

Despite the EUs ambition to create a single market, startups and scaleups still face a fragmented regulatory and business environment. Each member state interprets and implements EU recommendations differently, resulting in 27 variations of company law, tax rules, and investment frameworks. This…

French Business Federation Urges 35,000bn Euro Innovation Mobilization

Mouvement des Entreprises de France, 3 Oct 2025

MEDEF requests completing a Savings and Investment Union to mobilize 35,000 billion euros of private savings, massively deploying venture capital to prevent industrialization moving outside the EU, accelerating market access through dedicated instruments and pro-innovation procurement, and drastically simplifying access to European public funding through a single window with harmonized rules.
This would unlock massive private capital for French companies and prevent them losing control during industrialization phases.

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CropLife Europe, 11 Sept 2025

The Commissions ambition to strengthen the conditions for innovation within the EU must recognise agriculture as a strategic sector. Representing 25 companies and 32 national associations, our members develop pesticides, biopesticides, digital and precision agriculture tools and innovative crop…

German machinery industry urges process-focused approach over defining innovative companies

Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V., 2 Oct 2025

VDMA opposes defining innovative companies, arguing it creates bureaucracy and discrimination. They demand innovation stress tests for all regulations checking impacts on competitiveness, time-to-market, and small-scale production. They want support for IPR development and simplified public procurement access.
This would reduce regulatory burdens and compliance costs while avoiding discrimination against established machinery firms.
Start-ups and scale-ups lose targeted support measures if Innovation Act takes process-focused rather than actor-centered approach.

Danish Chamber of Commerce urges EU innovation reforms and sandbox expansion

The Danish Chamber of Commerce, 3 Oct 2025

The organization requests simplified regulatory frameworks through digital processes and regulatory sandboxes, better access to late-stage venture capital with streamlined procedures, and EU-wide training initiatives to address talent shortages.
This would reduce regulatory uncertainty and compliance burdens while improving capital access for Danish startups.

Volvo Group urges deeper industry integration in EU innovation funding

Volvo AB, 3 Oct 2025

The organization requests that EU innovation funding integrate large industries with startups and academia rather than supporting separate networks. They want the European Innovation Council broadened to include closer links to industry needs and facilitate collaboration with established companies.
This would give them access to EU innovation funding to support their startup collaboration programs.
Universities and research-linked startups lose exclusive access to increased EIC funding.

EuropaBio urges EU to close biotech funding gap and streamline innovation policies

EuropaBio, 2 Oct 2025

The organization requests innovation stress-tests for legislation, regulatory sandboxes, harmonized funding coordination, practical IPR-backed financing, competitive stock option rules, strategic public procurement for biotech, and stronger technology transfer frameworks. They argue current fragmentation prevents biotech companies from scaling and reaching market.
This would reduce regulatory burdens, improve access to late-stage capital, and help retain talent.

German Chemical Industry Urges Broader Innovation Act Beyond Start-Ups

Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V., 2 Oct 2025

The organization requests expanding the Innovation Act beyond start-ups to include industrial mid-caps, introducing regulatory sandboxes with clear transition paths, and modernizing state aid rules. They want early innovation impact assessments in legislation and simplified approval procedures for pilot plants.
This would reduce regulatory burden and provide targeted support for mid-sized chemical companies currently excluded from SME benefits.

France Digitale urges inclusive innovation framework with simplified EU expansion

France Digitale, 3 Oct 2025

The association requests an inclusive definition of innovative companies, a one-stop shop for cross-border formalities, and harmonized employee ownership schemes with deferred taxation. They advocate for regulatory sandboxes with clear entry and exit pathways.
This would reduce administrative burdens and enable easier cross-border scaling for startups.

Philips urges EU to speed device approvals and boost health innovation funding

Koninklijke Philips, 3 Oct 2025

Philips requests faster medical device approvals, ambitious health innovation funding including public-private partnerships, regulatory sandboxes across EU laws, and modernized procurement rules. They seek close-to-market technology development programs and large-scale deployment funding for hospitals.
This would reduce their four-times-longer EU approval times and five-times-higher certification costs versus the US.
Smaller competitors without resources to navigate fragmented regulations and lengthy approval processes lose market access.

Stora Enso urges EU fund for bio-based innovation scale-up

Stora Enso Oyj, 3 Oct 2025

The company requests a dedicated public fund for first-of-a-kind bio-based products, harmonised EU recyclability rules, and simplified cross-border licensing. They argue current fragmentation and long development timelines prevent breakthrough technologies from scaling commercially.
This would accelerate deployment of technologies like Emission-Free Pulping and attract private investment for their 10-15 year development cycles.
Fossil-based materials producers would face increased competition from accelerated bio-based alternatives.

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DSW (Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung), 30 Sept 2025

DSW INPUT: EU INNOVATION ACT CALL FOR EVIDENCE Draghis report identified health innovation as a priority for EU competitiveness, while President von der Leyens State of the Union address reaffirmed readiness to lead in global health. As a convener of the global health community working with…

European pharma entrepreneurs urge innovation-friendly policies for competitive healthcare sector

European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs, 3 Oct 2025

EUCOPE requests comprehensive innovation-friendly policies that address fragmented regulatory frameworks, reduce administrative burdens, improve access to capital, and protect intellectual property rights. They emphasize the need for sector-specific solutions recognizing pharmaceutical industry's unique characteristics and call for alignment with upcoming EU Biotech Act.
This would enable their members to sustain high-risk R&D investments and maintain competitive position in global pharmaceutical markets.

Nuclear firm Orano urges EU to boost innovation funding and reduce red tape

Orano, 24 Sept 2025

Orano requests increased R&D budgets for Horizon Europe and Euratom, harmonized regulations across member states, and reformed Innovation Fund procedures with reduced administrative burdens and more frequent calls. They emphasize nuclear technologies must be eligible for net-zero funding.
This would enable them to access EU funding and test innovative nuclear medicine products in Europe rather than the US.

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European Association of Research and Technology Organisations, 3 Oct 2025

EARTO, representing over 350 Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) across Europe, welcomes the European Commissions initiative to shape a European Innovation Act. We support efforts to create an innovation-friendly environment to boost the EUs competitiveness, economic growth, and security.…

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Shipyards' and Maritime Equipment Association of Europe, 2 Oct 2025

The Shipyards & Maritime Equipment Association of Europe (SEA Europe) represents the European maritime manufacturing industry in 17 countries, encompassing the production, maintenance, repair, retrofit and conversion of all types of ships and floating structures commercial as well as military…

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Confédération des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises, 2 Oct 2025

CPME thanks the European Commission for this consultation on the Innovation Act and welcomes the opportunity to contribute its perspective. In its position, the Confederation highlights the strategic imperative of closing the EUs innovation gap by creating a regulatory framework that facilitates…

App Association urges EU to cut overlapping regulations for startups

ACT | The App Association, 3 Oct 2025

The organization requests consolidation of overlapping digital regulations and exemption of startups from disproportionate reporting requirements. They advocate for coordinated incident reporting mechanisms and regulatory sandboxes to reduce compliance complexity. Future regulations should address demonstrated harms rather than hypothetical risks.
This would reduce administrative burden and compliance costs for small tech developers navigating complex EU rules.

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Land- en Tuinbouw Organisatie Nederland, 2 Oct 2025

LTO Nederland is de Nederlandse Land- en Tuinbouw Organisatie, die meer dan 30.000 Nederlandse boeren en tuinders vertegenwoordigt. De Nederlandse Land- en Tuinbouw is op dit moment al uiterst innovatief. Wereldwijd lopen we voorop in innovaties op het vlak van robotisering, digitalisering,…

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Finnish Food and Drink Industries' Federation (Elintarviketeollisuusliitto ry), 3 Oct 2025

To grow and create added value, food companies need predictable and encouraging conditions for innovation. Finnish Food and Drink Industries Federation stresses the (1) importance of developing an innovative regulatory environment and making smoother authorization processes of new products, and (2)…

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Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren e.V., 25 Sept 2025

Helmholtz Mission contributes to solving the grand challenges and one of its main foundations relies on providing research and innovation communities with access to the infrastructures operated by our Centres. Helmholtz Centres build and operate research infrastructures (RI), as well as technology…

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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, 3 Oct 2025

VTT welcomes the ambition of the Innovation Act to put research and innovation at the heart of our economy, to create an innovation friendly environment, and ensure that European startups can access the capital and technology infrastructures they need for their scaling up in Europe rather than…

Finnish Research Center Urges Data Infrastructure Investment for Innovation

CSC – IT CENTER FOR SCIENCE LTD., 1 Oct 2025

The organization requests prioritizing data access and infrastructure for European innovators, including a European web index and integration with EuroHPC AI resources. They emphasize building data capacities and skills for data-driven innovation.
This would make European innovators more competitive and less reliant on non-European tech giants.
Non-European tech giants lose their monopoly control over web search and data infrastructure.

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Netherlands House for Education and Research (Neth-ER), 2 Oct 2025

The Dutch knowledge sector, represented by Neth-ER, welcomes the Commissions initiative to propose a European Innovation Act to create an innovation-friendly environment in Europe. Scaling up innovation efforts is crucial for the EU to compete with global players such as the US and China, promote…

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Allied For Startups asbl, 1 Oct 2025

Allied For Startups (AFS) welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Call for Evidence on the European Innovation Act (EIA). Startups and scaleups are Europes most dynamic engines of innovation, yet their growth is constrained by fragmentation, burdensome regulation, and barriers to scale. The…

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General Aviation Manufacturers Association, 29 Sept 2025

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) thanks the European Commission for the opportunity to submit comments in response to the Call for evidence for an impact assessment for a European Innovation Act. Please find GAMA's detailed comments in the attached document.

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Rolls-Royce, 23 Sept 2025

Rolls-Royce develops and delivers complex power and propulsion solutions for safety-critical applications in the air, at sea and on land. Our products and service packages enable our customers to connect people, societies, cultures, and economies together and they meet the growing need for power…

French research agency CEA urges €175B innovation fund and European investor protection

Commissariat à l'Energie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, 3 Oct 2025

CEA proposes four pillars: creating a European investment ecosystem with sector-specific accelerators, protecting European innovators through 'first exploitation in Europe' rules, removing regulatory constraints including a 28th tax regime for startups, and linking private sector to public research infrastructures.
This would secure more EU funding for their research programs and give them priority access to innovative startups.
Non-European investors lose opportunities as 'first exploitation' rules would restrict where EU-funded technologies can be deployed.

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Svaz průmyslu a dopravy ČR, 3 Oct 2025

The Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic welcomes this initiative to increase competitiveness. Among other things, we see the following four problematic points: 1) Unification of concepts and their legal definition (definition). Legally undefined and overlapping terms "knowledge…

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Aena, S.M.E. S.A., 23 Sept 2025

La futura Ley Europea de la Innovación representa una oportunidad estratégica para reforzar la competitividad del ecosistema europeo de innovación, siempre que se garantice una coherencia regulatoria efectiva entre niveles de gobernanza y se reconozca el papel de los grandes operadores públicos…

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European Committee for Standardization, 2 Oct 2025

CEN and CENELEC, two of the European Standardization Organizations (ESOs), together with our Members the National Standardization Bodies (NSBs) and the National Committees (NCs), welcome the European Commissions Innovation Act and highlight the strategic role of European standardization in turning…

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Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 3 Oct 2025

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) highly values the opportunity to contribute to this consultation on such a crucial topic for Europes future. With a main profile in technology and natural sciences, NTNU considers this process particularly important for strengthening Europes…

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BEAM Alliance, 3 Oct 2025

BEAM Alliance represents 70+ European SMEs developing 120+ innovative products against antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR already causes 35,000 deaths in Europe and economic impacts that amount to billions, and these figures will continue to grow. BEAM aims to improve R&D environment to help curb…

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European Society for Paediatric Oncology, 2 Oct 2025

SIOPE welcomes the European Innovation Act as a potentially useful instrument to shift gears in paediatric oncology innovation, and our aim is clear: to see more start-ups and biotech companies sustaining and scaling up innovation for children with cancer, namely start-ups focused on specific…

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Edwards Lifesciences, 3 Oct 2025

Edwards Lifesciences welcomes the proposal for the European Innovation Act as a timely and strategic initiative to accelerate the uptake of breakthrough innovation and strengthen Europes industrial competitiveness. As a global leader in structural heart innovations, Edwards sees this as an…

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Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research, 3 Oct 2025

On behalf of CESAER, the association of more than 50 leading universities of science and technology across Europe, I am pleased to submit our input to the consultation on the European Innovation Act. We have chosen to provide our contribution in the form of an attached input note. This document…

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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 3 Oct 2025

The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) is one of Europes leading research-performing organisations, recognised for its excellence in both fundamental and applied research, and for its central role in advancing scientific knowledge and innovation for the benefit of society. As a…

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International Trademark Association, 3 Oct 2025

The International Trademark Association (INTA) would like to thank the European Commission for the opportunity to provide feedback on its consultation, you can find our position paper attached and in our website (https://www.inta.org/advocacy/).

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Food Fermentation Europe, 3 Oct 2025

Food Fermentation Europe (FFE) represents companies developing precision and biomass fermentation solutions for food and feed. We welcome the European Commissions ambition to design a European Innovation Act that strengthens Europes competitiveness, closes the innovation gap with global peers, and…

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Österreichische Notariatskammer, 3 Oct 2025

Please find attached the contribution by the Austrian Chamber of Civil-Law Notaries.

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European Regions Research and Innovation Network, 3 Oct 2025

ERRIN welcomes the initiative to strengthen the innovation dimension of the EU research and innovation policy through the Innovation Act. Following the New European Innovation Agenda, to which ERRIN actively contributed to highlighting key areas that the agenda should tackle such as supporting…

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Future Cleantech Architects, 2 Oct 2025

The EU Innovation Act provides a critical opportunity to strengthen Europes innovation architecture in support of climate neutrality, industrial competitiveness and decarbonization, and strategic autonomy. Current frameworks, Horizon Europe, the EIC, and Innovation Fund, have mobilized substantial…

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The Good Food Institute Europe (Belgium), 30 Sept 2025

The Good Food Institute Europe welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the European Commissions call for evidence on the European Innovation Act. Please find our detailed feedback in the attached document.

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Culture Action Europe, 3 Oct 2025

Culture Action Europe welcomes the development of the European Innovation Act and emphasises that the essential role of cultureboth as a sector in its own right and as a catalyst for othersmust be fully embraced in the regulation. We hope the EIA will create an opportunity to address the…

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Paris Europlace, 29 Sept 2025

Paris Europlace fully supports the thought process on the harmonisation of business law within the European Union. The expected benefits of such defragmentation of business laws and corresponding markets would be: strengthening European sovereignty and competitiveness; reducing compliance costs for…

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International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed (IPIFF), 3 Oct 2025

Please consider the enclosed Position Paper on behalf of IPIFF, the International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed.

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International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 3 Oct 2025

This response comes from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, in the context of its administration of the Knowledge Rights 21 programme. Libraries represent a key infrastructure for research, enabling this through providing possibilities to access, draw on and…

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Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, 3 Oct 2025

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is pleased to submit these comments in response to the European Commissions call for evidence on the Commissions proposed European Innovation Act (EIA). The Commissions assessment of the roots of the European innovation deficit is…

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Deutscher Steuerberaterverband e.V., 30 Sept 2025

The German Tax Advisors Association (DStV) welcomes the European Commissions proposal for the European Innovation Act, which is designed to strengthen the EUs competitiveness and reduce barriers to market entry. DStV emphasises that the Act must benefit all companies, not just start-ups, scale-ups…

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EIT Food ivzw, 3 Oct 2025

EIT Food welcomes the upcoming publication of the European Innovation Act. We commend the Commissions work to overhaul the EUs R&I legislative alongside the 2028-34 Horizon Europe framework programme, to ensure that Europe remains at the forefront of global innovation, both in terms of research and…

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Novamont SpA, 3 Oct 2025

We welcome the development of the Innovation Act, to foster the innovation and remove the barriers that do not allow the innovative companies to scale up their products and access the market, promoting industrial development in strategic sectors related to circular economy and bioeconomy. In…

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Science Europe, 3 Oct 2025

Research and Innovation are strongly interlinked. The Innovation Act should enable the effective valorisation of research into innovation, with excellence as a key criterion for research assessment. Therefore, the objectives of this act should be built build on the foundation of supporting…

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EIT RawMaterials GmbH, 2 Oct 2025

Europe is in a unique position where it has achieved extraordinary success in world-leading R&D across Raw Materials sectors but still faces a significant challenge in converting early-stage technology developments into commercial products at scale. In a highly competitive, geopolitically…

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IP2Innovate, 24 Sept 2025

IP2Innovate, a coalition of small and large companies whose mission is to bring balance to Europes patent legal system so that it supports innovation, competitiveness and growth, welcomes the objectives of the upcoming European Innovation Act. A balanced patent system is an important prerequisite…

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Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW) e.V., 2 Oct 2025

Der BVDW begrüßt den Fokus der Europäischen Kommission auf dem Thema der Innovation in unserer Wirtschaft und bedankt sich für die Möglichkeit Stellung nehmen zu können. Für weitere Details sehen Sie bitte das beigefügte Dokument.

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European Association for the Applied Sciences in Higher Education, 3 Oct 2025

The European Association for the Applied Sciences in Higher Education (ERUASHE) welcomes the European Commissions initiative to develop a European Innovation Act. As centres of practice-based research and lifelong learning, applied universities make an important contribution to research and…

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Cellular Agriculture Europe, 3 Oct 2025

Cellular Agriculture Europe welcomes the opportunity to submit a contribution to the call for evidence on the European Commissions EU Innovation Act. The attached document outlines our views and proposed measures to support the European innovation ecosystem, closing the innovation gap with our…

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Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement, 3 Oct 2025

CIRAD is a French research performing organisation in agriculture, working in cooperation with tropical and Mediterranean countries. Innovations resulting from this collaborative research have sometimes been licensed to EU and/or non-EU SMEs. On other occasions, innovations have been directly…

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Läkemedelsindustriföreningen, 3 Oct 2025

Lif the research-based pharmaceuticals industry in Sweden is grateful for the opportunity to give our remarks on the proposed regulation. The pharmaceutical industry in Sweden is of great strategic importance. Employing over 16,000 people, its total exports of pharmaceuticals from Sweden amount to…

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EBAN ASBL - The European Business Angels Network, 11 Jul 2025

EBAN suggests focusing on: - creating the sandbox regulatory framework 28th regime as the means to harmonize the regulatory frameworks that are fragmented across Europe. - create incentives for pension funds and other instiutional investors to invest in VC funds from early to later stages. - go…

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European Venture Philanthropy Association, 3 Oct 2025

The European Innovation Act marks a pivotal step in strengthening Europes innovation ecosystem and is a key deliverable of the EU Startup & Scaleup Strategy. As a legislative and cross-sectoral framework, the EIA seeks to tackle long-standing structural barriers from fragmented regulation and…

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European Network of Social Integration Enterprises, 3 Oct 2025

ENSIE welcomes the European Commissions initiative to improve the framework conditions for startups and scaleups through the forthcoming European Innovation Act. To be truly inclusive and impactful, the Act must also recognise the role of Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) and social…

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Association of European Research Establishments in Aeronautics, 2 Oct 2025

EREA would like to help smaller companies, startups & scale ups (SMEs) overcome their limited access to Research and Technology Infrastructures (TIs). This in light of the European Innovation Acts wider aim to foster competitiveness through helping smaller companies, startups & scale ups to access…

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Proxima Fusion, 25 Jul 2025

Proxima Fusion welcomes the ambition of the European Innovation Act to create an innovation-friendly Single Market and remove structural barriers holding back European deep-tech scale-ups. We strongly support the goal of reducing regulatory fragmentation and increasing access to research…

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European Energy Research Alliance aisbl, 3 Oct 2025

The European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) constitutes the largest low-carbon energy research community in Europe and beyond, bringing together over 250 leading organisations from more than 30 countries, with the mission of catalysing European energy research for a climate-neutral society by…

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European Quantum Industry Consortium, 3 Oct 2025

The European Innovation Act represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshape Europes innovation landscape and ensure that scientific excellence translates into societal and economic leadership. Across the diverse stakeholder perspectives explored from agile start-ups to large enterprises,…

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European Confederation of Workers' Cooperatives, Social Cooperatives and Social and Participative Enterprises, 3 Oct 2025

CECOP, the European Confederation of Industrial and Service Cooperatives, welcomes the European Commissions consultation on the European Innovation Act. As the EU strives for increasing the competitiveness of Europe and creating an enabling environment for innovation, the European Innovation Act…

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DigiFinland Oy, 2 Oct 2025

We thank you for the opportunity to contribute. DigiFinlands statement is enclosed as an attachment.

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Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2 Oct 2025

The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spains largest public research organisation, welcomes the European Commissions initiative to strengthen Europes innovation ecosystem through the European Innovation Act. Based on its extensive experience in research, knowledge transfer, and support for…

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International Patient Organisation for Primary Immunodeficiencies, 2 Oct 2025

The International Patient Organisation for Primary Immunodeficiencies (IPOPI) welcomes the opportunity to contribute evidence for the impact assessment on the proposed European Innovation Act. We provide our input from the perspective of patients living with primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) across…

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Chamber of Progress, 3 Oct 2025

On behalf of Chamber of Progress a tech industry association supporting public policies to build a more inclusive society in which all people benefit from technological advancements please find our submission attached.

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Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek, 3 Oct 2025

VITO Response to the Call for Evidence on the EU Innovation Act attached in pdf format. VITO welcomes the European Commissions plans to adopt the European Innovation Act and strongly supports its ambition to close the EU innovation gap, strengthen Europes competitiveness, and anchor innovation in…

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European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities, 3 Oct 2025

The European Alliance for SSH has a long experience in studies and research on innovation in the service sector and social innovation which is critical for resilience and development, especially during difficult times. We prepared a short statement for the consultation in the file attached. We…

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European AI Forum, 2 Oct 2025

The European AI Forum welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the consultation "European Innovation Act". Please find our detailed position attached.

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Fusion Industry Association, 30 Sept 2025

The Fusion Industry Association (FIA) welcomes the European Commissions initiative to develop a European Innovation Act. As identified in the Competitiveness Compass, this Act is essential to closing the innovation gap between the EU and global competitors by streamlining regulation, improving…

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European Business and Innovation Centre Network, 29 Sept 2025

The European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN) welcomes the European Innovation Act (EIA) as a cornerstone initiative to address persistent challenges in Europes competitiveness and innovation gap. Anchored in the evidence from our annual quality assessments and feedback from our EU|BIC…

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Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 26 Sept 2025

The University of Groningen fully supports EUs efforts to improve the single market with a European Innovation Act. We strongly believe that any European initiative to foster innovation must consider the full knowledge value chain from fundamental research to commercial application and recognise…

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Future Affairs Consulting B.V., 3 Oct 2025

We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the European Commission's call for evidence regarding the European Innovation Act. Please find our feedback attached.

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Data, AI and Robotics (DAIRO) AISBL, 3 Oct 2025

BDVA welcomes the European Commissions efforts to improve the European innovation ecosystem through the European Innovation Act. Addressing the innovation in Europe to boost the competitiveness and foster growth is a key challenge from BDVAs perspective. Many limitations related to bringing the…

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Confindustria Servizi Innovativi e Tecnologici, 3 Oct 2025

We hereby submit, in the attached document, our contribution to the European Commissions consultation on the European Innovation Act, with proposals to reduce fragmentation, improve access to finance and technology, enhance Europes capacity to attract and retain talent, and strengthen Europes…

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Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, 3 Oct 2025

Studies show that awakening the "sleeping giant of technology transfer and innovation from science" is possible. If, on the one hand, innovation and scientific success are given equal importance for careers in academia, and, on the other hand, researchers are given low-threshold access to…

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International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications, 3 Oct 2025

The International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) welcomes the European Innovation Act (EIA) as a critical step toward strengthening Europes competitiveness and technological sovereignty. INATBA represents Europes blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT)…

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RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, 3 Oct 2025

RISE welcomes the European Innovation Act as a way to strengthen Europes innovation system and global competitiveness. We particularly commend the Commissions new strategy for research and technology infrastructures, which is well aligned with a modern European innovation system. At the same time,…

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Universities of Applied Sciences for Europe, 2 Oct 2025

UAS4EUROPE supports the ambition to foster a European Single Market for Innovation through the European Innovation Act. A dedicated Innovation Working Group, comprising 16 high-level representatives of universities of applied sciences with a profound knowledge of innovation conduct, has compiled a…

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Danske Iværksættere, 2 Oct 2025

Europe has world-class research and entrepreneurial talent, but too often we see breakthrough ideas fail to become thriving companies or to deliver sustainable jobs in Europe. This is due to the fragmented rules, disproportionate compliance costs, weak procurement opportunities, uneven access to…

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Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 2 Oct 2025

As a leading Social Sciences, Humanities (SSH) and Medical university, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) shares its reflections and recommendations, based on expertise and experience in social innovation, humancentric innovation, and responsible use of technologies. We share ideas for impactful,…

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Euclid Network, 30 Sept 2025

Euclid Network (EN) is the European network for social enterprise (SE) intermediary organisations. This includes national associations for social entrepreneurship, incubators and accelerators - all of whom are working to support social entrepreneurs to start and scale their SEs to create positive…

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OFFICE NATIONAL D’ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES, 19 Sept 2025

ONERAs Contribution European Innovation Act Europe has strong scientific and technological assets, but structural barriers still slow their transformation into industrial innovation. The European Innovation Act (EIA) is a unique chance to close this gap, help young companies to scale up across…

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Stichting LIBER, 3 Oct 2025

There is a notable disjunction between the domains of Research and Innovation. It is imperative to achieve legislative changes to ensure that the entirety of the EU acquis supports the trajectory of innovation development. LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, has underscored…

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H.+ H. Maslanka, 3 Oct 2025

German universities fulfil their mandate to society through research and teaching and, on that foundation, through systematic knowledge and technology transfer. The scale and direction of effects can be described with a few core indicators: In 2023, universities generated 2,927 university-origin…

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Index Ventures (UK) LLP, 3 Oct 2025

On behalf of Index Ventures please see our full feedback attached in PDF format.

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REUP Technologies Holding BV, 3 Oct 2025

RE&UP Technologies Holding BV, a next-generation circular technology company, headquartered in the Netherlands and committed to revolutionizing textile waste recycling, advocates for a more supportive legislative and financial environment in the European market. RE&UP welcomes the Commissions…

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ASOCIACION ESPAÑOLA DE BIOEMPRESAS, 3 Oct 2025

The European Union must urgently overcome its innovation gap. While Europe boasts a world-class scientific base and a wealth of talent, its potential is consistently hampered by systemic barriers: regulatory fragmentation, obstacles to long-term financing, and a systemic talent shortage. These…

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CONFEDERACION EMPRESARIAL ESPAÑOLA DE LA ECONOMIA SOCIAL, 2 Oct 2025

CEPES (Spanish Confederation of Social Economy Enterprises) is the leading representative organisation for Spanish Social Economy Enterprises. In Spain, the Social Economy plays a significant socio-economic role, encompassing over 74,600 enterprises and entities that generate 10% of the national…

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University Medical Center Groningen/Academisch Ziekenhuis Groningen, 2 Oct 2025

The University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) is a university hospital with strong clinical research and testing infrastructure, an active valorisation chain (TTO, spin-offs), and intensive public-private collaboration. From this position, we support a European Innovation Act (EIA) that removes…

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Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform, 30 Sept 2025

The Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the European Innovation Act (EIA) consultation. We wish to highlight specific challenges and needs of our SMEs and start-ups, some closely aligned with the objectives of the EIA, and others of…

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Wagralim, 16 Sept 2025

Wallonia is making significant efforts to redevelop its economy and increase its employment rate across the entire population, in a context marked by ecological transition and sudden geopolitical upheavals. Strategic analyses show that the food system is a cornerstone of Wallonias economy. Closely…

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European Coalition to End Animal Experiments, 11 Sept 2025

The replacement of animal testing through innovation is a potential beneficiary of the European Innovation Act and is therefore an important sector to consider when drafting the measures to support innovation within the Act. The desire to end animal testing by the use of replacement methods is…

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hiALtitude Consulting, 16 Jul 2025

At hiALtitude Consulting, our clients range from early-stage European tech companies to global actors looking to partner with or invest in the EU market. One of the biggest challenges these clients face is navigating the complex, fragmented legal and funding landscape across different member…

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SuperNode Ltd, 3 Oct 2025

SuperNode, is a global technology development company specialising in next generation superconducting cable systems. We design and deliver cutting-edge, cryostats and superconducting cable systems for bulk electricity transmission over long distances, within cities, and for industrial applications,…

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, 3 Oct 2025

The International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI) welcomes the initiative of the EU Innovation Act because it represents a unique opportunity to strengthen Europes competitiveness, support startups and scaleups, and foster a more innovation-friendly Single Market. The proposed…

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Alliance for Biosolutions, 3 Oct 2025

Call for evidence on the European Innovation Act Alliance for BioSolutions welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the forthcoming European Innovation Act. We view the Act as a crucial step to strengthen Europes innovation capacity and to ensure that biobased solutions can be developed and scaled…

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BioInnovation Institute Fonden, 3 Oct 2025

Increasing the number of deep-tech (AI, quantum, life science, bioeconomy, etc.) startups is crucial to the competitiveness of Europe. Most of these start-ups originate from scientific, mostly academic, research. There are two ways to increase numbers: a) Incentivize more researchers to become…

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European Crowdfunding Network AISBL, 3 Oct 2025

Statement on the European Innovation Act: Strengthening Regulated Innovation Finance and Market Uptake As a long-standing supplier and buyer in EU-funded research, innovation, and procurement programmes with direct experience across more than 20 EU grants and tenders (including with the EC, EIB,…

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Akademiet for Social Innovation, 2 Oct 2025

The Danish Social Innovation Academy, as Denmark's National Competence Centre for Social Innovation, welcomes the ambition of the European Innovation Act. However, to achieve its goals, the EIA should explicitly recognise and integrate social innovation alongside technological and deep-tech…

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Social Entrepreneurship Netzwerk Deutschland e.V., 30 Sept 2025

We welcome the ambition of the European Innovation Act (EIA) to remove fragmentation, simplify rules, improve access to finance and infrastructures, and make procurement more innovation-friendly across the Single Market. To fully achieve these goals, the EIA should explicitly recognise and…

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European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 23 Sept 2025

The ESRF welcomes the European Innovation Act, highlighting the role of research infrastructures (RIs) in driving innovation through advanced X-ray capabilities, high-throughput analysis and industry collaboration. Despite strong demand, structural barriers hinder full industrial use: low…

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Säule Wissenschaft der trinationalen Metropolregion Oberrhein, 10 Sept 2025

The Science Pillar is part of the Trinational Metropolitan Region Upper Rhine (TMO) and brings together universities, universities of applied sciences and research institutions in Germany, France and Switzerland. Our goal is to promote cross-border innovation through research combined with…

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European Biosafety Association, 22 Aug 2025

The European Biosafety Association (EBSA) welcomes the Call for Evidence on the European Innovation Act. Detailed feedback can be found in the attached position paper. For ease of reference, the executive summary is copied here below. EBSA remains fully available to engage further on any of the…

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DigitalTrade4.EU, 19 Aug 2025

This document provides feedback to the European Commission on the proposed European Innovation Act, emphasizing the strategic role of the European Trade Indexes Registry (EUTIR) in advancing a digital, sustainable, and innovation-friendly Single Market. It outlines how EUTIR serves as a trusted,…

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Farmless, 22 Jul 2025

Farmless brews functional proteins using natural fermentation. Farmless proteins are specifically selected for their nutritional value and taste, produced through a controlled and natural process. This innovative approach offers export opportunities for the European Union and enhances strategic…