The EU research frameworks are first and foremost aimed at building cross-national relations, second at industry subsidising under an accepted pretense, and thi

The EU research frameworks are first and foremost aimed at building cross-national relations, second at industry subsidising under an accepted pretense, and third at forging academic industry transfers. Getting actually market results from the stated research objective is a far fourth. Think about it this way: if you have a true strategic research objective as a company, would your approach be 'I am going to share this idea with in a not public but not private either research proposal after I have built out a an international consortium and parcelled out different workitems for the realization of this idea to a host of 'partners' whos stratgic innovation ideas allign with my own, the hope for a 5% chance of receiving approval and a partial funding grant 2 years after I got the idea appoved internall, that imposes an extremely heavy reporting and management process on me to monitor and report on a series of prenegotiated 'deliverables' and evaluations over the next 3 years after which we can maybe exploit this resulting shared IP? The unfortunate reality is that as a result most research departments, both industry and academic, spent nearly all their effort on grant aquisition and grant management, and only what is left goes to producing contractual agreements and passing reviews with no further leeway for actual research There are exceptions. I would fully support a strategic EU tech 'decollonization' effort as it is badly needed, but the current programs are never going to succeed in that as they are not set up for this, and getting a true successful effort of the ground would probably meet with substatial political detraction. P.S. Despite the above I have loved working in the EU research space. The International work environment is truely enriching, and most people working in this arena are realy bright and at the top of their game.