“...it is very important to pass a message that this is a moment to select and design the investments that will be in place for changing our lives in the next seven years...”
“...And so what I was here talking today is that I think the Pact for Innovation has really the key words for that idea- coherence, focus, citizens and future...”
“...I think that education is the pre-condition for making Europe a better place for entrepreneurship, because if we can teach entrepreneurial skills in school for instance, or if we can create a culture of entrepreneurship in schools and in non-formal education , that could be the best way for the future place of entrepreneurship in Europe...”
“...EFSI? is a new fund which finances for instance start up SME mid cap companies, it finances risk carries investment project so the idea is to provide risk finance in order to crowd in private money for instance to innovations. So EFSI is already up and running and entrepreneurs and banks and venture capitals finds can contact the EIB...”
“...in the debates of K4I we discussed very clearly that we have especially to connect the local level, and its potential of innovation to the European funding...We need institutions, governments, to support and propose and push for as much dialogue as possible between stakeholders, businesses, and the academia ...”
“...we still got all the ingredients to be a world leader in innovation ...Everything is about technologies, everything is about innovation. If we got more innovation in energy sector we can win in all this pillars of our Energy Union...”
“...My priority is to keep both research and the innovation and the power created by the research & innovation in Europe, and working for the European citizens... so that means making sure that in every single thing we do, we say: Does it work for innovators? Does it work for small businesses? Is it going to help making the European economy more competitive and more attractive to investors from all around the world...”
“...Cooperation is very important, we need to talk to each other, we have to see what are the issues on the table, and this is only possible if we have this kind of meetings, if we have congresses, if we talk to each other in several formats, and this is why I am very pleased to host one of these events...”
“... In order for young people to become entrepreneurs, they need Europe to give them the support necessary to have the courage to engage with what they are a
“...The principle is we look forward for 2050, what we can do for the next generation, for our children...”
“...We need to support innovation in all areas in our society in Europe... we need to understand that industry has to be helped to get the right incentives to invest... And we have to create the right instruments to finance entrepreneurs, the young people, researchers platforms who are trying to achieve something ...”
“...we invest in start-ups in incubators and when they are becoming successful they need more capital they need venture capital, that is the phase that we get in trouble in Europe, because we have a lack of venture capitalists...”
“...the Pact for Innovation we decided to launch today, will give opportunities for representatives of cities to participate in the Europe’s debate... Smart cities are a very big opportunity to make Europe competitive. There we have the young people, there we have companies...”
“... nurses are the frontline workers in the care system every day, and we have a main challenge: to bring this evidence of their work into the policy-making, therefore it is very important to have
the European Nursing Research Foundation to bring the knowledge together... we need to scale it up towards new innovation and see how this can be deployed throughout the EU...”
“... Satellite Earth observation has always been closely connected to the development of IT skills... we will produce from 2018 in on, when we have all satellites in orbit, more than 8 petabytes per year...and in Earth observation we have 540 companies at the moment which are in the association of Earth observation... but we are only at the beginning, so what we need from the EC is supporting building European infrastructures, alter regulation, because Big Data has to be regulated”
“... Through all Europe we need to mobilize the cities... citizens take a crucial role... It’s committed young generation that makes a difference. And that lets the pact have an impact, so we really get the more renewable capital throughout Europe.”
“... We are a a unique institute with a unique governance model, because we work through large innovation communities, the so-called KICs, and we do that in order to really boost entrepreneurs and innovation, entrepreneurs and education around universities...we are investing in pan- European ecosystems where the knowledge triangle -research, innovation and education- works closely together...”
