European Innovation Council board member Bart Becks talks about the sandboxes, unified incorporation regime and new funding options in the EU’s latest strategy for start-ups and scale-ups as lawmakers obsess over competitiveness.
Dublin is the seventh-biggest tech hub in Europe when ranked by capital invested in start-ups over the ten years to 2024, although the almost $7 billion deployed here is dwarfed by London’s $100 billion-plus.
There’s a shortcut to figuring out whether a central bank has pushed too hard or not hard enough. All you need is a trendline.
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