EIT Digital: Enhancing the Global Impact of European Innovation

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The EIT Digital Strategic Innovation Agenda 2020-2022

EIT Digital presented its Strategic Innovation Agenda for the
period 2020-2022, outlining plans to strengthen Europe's position in
the digital world and to help business and entrepreneurs to be at the
forefront of digital innovation. The document was officially handed
over to European Commission Vice-President Andrus Ansip and MEP Eva
Kaili.

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"We have identified five core challenges that need to be addressed
in order to build a strong digital Europe," said EIT Digital CEO
Willem Jonker.

1. We need to bring European values to the digital world by building
global European digital businesses and scaling up disruptive
digital ventures that have potential for global success.
2. We have to further address fragmentation to support digital
enterprises and entrepreneurs. The completion of the Digital
Single Market must be accelerated and the whole of Europe turned
into a "de facto" domestic market for European entrepreneurs.
3. It is necessary to raise R&D investments in digital technologies
and emphasise on software, where currently American and Asian
companies are leading the way.
4. We must strongly increase deep tech innovation investments and
take mature research results from laboratory to market, especially
by means of entrepreneurship.
5. And we have to adapt the European education system to the digital
reality, to equip people with the right digital skills, and to
deploy digital technology in order to support education.

The Strategic Innovation Agenda outlines EIT Digital's strategy
for the coming years and provides concrete answers to these core
challenges.

"EIT Digital builds on strong achievements and will focus in
coming years on further increasing the global impact of European
actors in the digital world," emphasised Willem Jonker. "We will do
so by selecting and growing the most promising European digital
technology from our ecosystem and beyond, and by supporting the
attraction and education of necessary digital talent."

Building on a strong partner ecosystem of business, research and
academia, EIT Digital applies key instruments to strengthen
European digital innovation:

- Drive market uptake of top European research results: EIT Digital
facilitates cross-border innovation collaboration to bring
promising, mature research results out of the lab and quickly into
the market. For the first time ever, EIT Digital opens in 2019 its
call for proposals beyond its 200-strong partner network to
generate even more commercially competitive innovations.
- Support international growth: The EIT Digital Accelerator helps
fast-growing European deep tech scaleups to expand internationally
and become dominant global players.
- Fuelling the European market with digital entrepreneurs through
education: The EIT Digital Academy equips talents with solid
technical knowledge and the necessary entrepreneurship and business
skills to spot opportunities, understand market needs and
capitalise on them.

For more information visit: http://www.eitdigital.eu

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