T
he EU’s new technology funding body, the European Innovation Council (EIC), is supposed to be a place where people can pitch wild ideas and win funding to pursue them.
Helping make this vision reality is the head of Science Foundation Ireland and chief science adviser to the Irish government, Mark Ferguson, who last month was picked to head a 22-strong board of research and technology experts overseeing EIC’s rollout.
“I’ll encourage the board to be as entrepreneurial as the community we serve,” Ferguson said. “Our research is good. Our innovation potential needs to be developed. Look at artificial intelligence. In research Europe is leading, but on companies created we’re way down the list,” Ferguson told Science|Business.
Image: Mark Ferguson speaking at a conference in Tallinn, Estonia - https://sciencebusiness.net
