The Legacy of Science Commissioner, Carlos Moedas

The SciTech Europa website posted an interview by Science|Business’s Managing Director, Maryline Fiaschi with the European Union’s Science Commissioner, Carlos Moedas.  Fiaschi maintained that the Commission has perhaps made the most progress during Moedas’s five-year tenure with open innovation, and that the European Innovation Council (EIC) is one of its biggest developments. Moedas explained that, soon, Germany’s Chancellor Merkel and France’s President Macron and others who “had never spoken before about innovation were now talking about it, and specifically about disruptive innovation.” Fiaschi asked Moedas just how open should the EIC should be. Moedas answered, “I have a lot of trouble with the idea that this is ‘just for us’ or ‘just for the Member States’. I want the best ideas to come to Europe….I want the EIC to be as open as it can be.”

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