{"id":464850,"date":"2026-09-14T12:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/09\/14\/lallarme-bce-pochi-investimenti-lue-rischia-di-restare-indietro-nellinnovazione\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T12:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:46:36","slug":"ecb-warns-that-amid-low-investment-europe-risks-falling-behind-in-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/09\/14\/ecb-warns-that-amid-low-investment-europe-risks-falling-behind-in-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"ECB warns that amid low investment, Europe risks falling behind in innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Innovation, competitiveness, and even the twin transition: the EU has a problem with its agenda, and a rather serious one at that. As Isabel Schnabel<\/strong>, a member of the Executive Board<\/a> of the European Central Bank, points out, “Europe risks falling behind on innovation amid low venture capital investment,<\/strong>\u201d i.e., investment in high-potential sectors. She sounds this warning at the symposium on European competitiveness organised by the German Ministry of Economy, complete with a graphical illustration of the gap between Europe and the United States and China.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Biotechnology, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, and green technology: the EU lags in every future technological category.<\/strong> The number of patents in these fields pales in comparison with those of the world\u2019s leading competitors, due to investment barriers that must be removed. The EU is less well-equipped, with fewer talents, and this affects the flow of public \u2013 and even more so private \u2013 funding. In 2025, venture capital investment in new technologies amounted to 1 per cent of the US Gross Domestic Product, compared with 0.2 per cent in the European Union. The US attracts five times as much, following an upward trajectory, whilst the EU\u2019s has remained stable over the last two years. Stable, and therefore stagnant. <\/p>\n

The ECB is therefore issuing a fresh call to change course \u2013 and quickly, as the EU is already lagging and risks falling even further behind. The European Commission has attempted to correct the situation with a plan tailored to retain start-ups<\/a>, and the Council of the EU has opened the way for reform of the Horizon research programme<\/a> to promote innovation and future competitiveness. These are all useful measures and a step in the right direction. However, looking at the figures, these initiatives may not be enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A message at the Berlin symposium on competitiveness. The European Union suffers from a low level of venture capital and is being outpaced by the United States and China in all key sectors of the future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":464840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30805],"tags":[26324,26112,26151,26698,26699,26529],"class_list":["post-464850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-markets","tag-bce-en","tag-bank-central-en-en","tag-innovation-en","tag-new-technologies-en","tag-technology-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464851,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464850\/revisions\/464851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}