Is #Europe lacking courage? Interesting read by Mimi Billing at Sifted featuring Heart Aerospace’s founder and CEO Anders Forslund. #innovation #climateaction #scaling #EU
For the last few days, I've been reaching out to various deeptech founders to talk about if we need governments to bail out companies like Lilium and Northvolt, or what? From the answers I got, the issue is much greater than that. Deeptech founders tell me about Europe's problems with capital market failure, not enough late-stage investments, too much bureaucracy, too few contracts for scaleups and the issue that Europe also lacks courage. If you think Mario Draghi's report on "The future of European competitiveness" was bleak reading, think again. But, while Mario Draghi is talking the talk, are European countries and the EU walking the walk? What do you think? https://lnkd.in/dbTe6EbB Thank you for talking to me Anders Forslund at Heart Aerospace and Robert Falck at Einride. Also thanks to Christian Bauer at Volocopter for talking so openly about this at Sifted Summit and others.