Editor-in-chief James Mawson takes an in-depth look at what the Horizon Europe budget needs to achieve.

Pascal Lamy, the so-called “gendarme” of the European Commission (EC) in the 1980s and 1990s, might have passed on the mantle of most powerful chief of staff and controller to Martin “the monster” Selmayr, now secretary-general of the world’s second-largest economy, but his influence remains on important areas of policy, particularly innovation.

In his influential report on innovation policy and funding for the EU’s next seven-year budget, Lamy laid out the case for more funding of research and development, and…

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.