> The EU could significantly advance its innovation capabilities by revising the charter of existing frameworks like the European Institute of Innovation and Te

> The EU could significantly advance its innovation capabilities by revising the charter of existing frameworks like the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), which despite a budget of over 2 billion Euros doesn’t have a functioning website at time of writing, to emulate the successful models of Arc and ARPA in the US, and ARIA in the UK. Brit here. Almost no-one in the UK has heard of ARIA, which was an idea briefly pushed by a guy called Dominic Cummings - who was briefly a political advisor to Boris Johnson back when he was prime minister. As far as I can tell it has a yearly budget of just £200million - which doesn't buy very much advanced world-class research when compared to ARPA's $3.6bn budget or that of EIT. Its basically an under-resourced, post-brexit attempt to make the UK look like its playing with the big boys. Calling it "successful" is a stretch. Also, EIT's website is at https://eit.europa.eu/ https://eit.europa.eu/ and, as far as I can tell, it works just fine.