EIC

The European Innovation Council (EIC) promotes breakthrough innovation with scale-up potential at the global level.

It focuses mainly on breakthrough, deep tech and disruptive innovation, targeting especially market-creating innovation.

Areas of intervention:

• Pathfinder funding: for advanced research, supporting early stage development of future and emerging breakthrough, market-creating and/or deep tech technologies.

• Transition funding: to help researchers and innovators develop the pathway to commercial development for promising research results.

• Accelerator funding: to support individual SMEs, startups and small mid-caps to bridge the financing gap between late stages of research activities and market take-up, to effectively deploy breakthrough, market-creating innovation and scale-up companies where the market does not provide viable financing additional activities such as prizes and fellowships, and business added-value services.

• STEP Scale-Up: Scaling up strategic technologies. Catalyzing major funding rounds to scale up breakthrough innovations in the fields of digital, deep tech, clean tech & biotech.