Schwarzenberg stage | Scaling Europe's Next-Generation Technologies: From Lab to Market

In cooperation with WORLD.MINDS Europe does not lack breakthrough technology. It lacks the industrial and financial ecosystem to scale it. Across energy, advanced materials, defence, and digital infrastructure, European startups are producing cutting-edge, globally competitive innovations, and then hitting walls on capital, procurement, regulation, and speed. The result: technologies born in Europe get scaled elsewhere, or not at all. The pattern is consistent. Venture funding dries up at growth stage. Defence and public procurement cycles move too slowly to match the threat environment. Regulatory frameworks designed for incumbents create friction for new entrants. And unlike in the U.S. or China, there is no single market reflex that channels sovereign strategic need into commercial demand. - What specific breaks in the European scaling pipeline (capital, procurement, regulation, talent) are most responsible for losing globally competitive startups to other markets, and which are most fixable in the near term? - How can European governments turn strategic priorities in defence, energy, and critical infrastructure into actual demand signals that reach deep-tech startups, not just incumbents? - What would a European growth-stage financing ecosystem need to look like to keep breakthrough companies scaling on the continent, and what role should public capital play in catalysing it? Speakers: Hermann Hauser, Co-Founder & Venture Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners Oliver Pabst, Partner, Redalpine Venture Partners Anna Zeiter, Founder, W Led by: Mor Eini, VP Partnerships, WORLD.MINDS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GLOBSECforum X: https://x.com/GLOBSEC LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/10637133/admin/dashboard/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/globsecthinktank/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/globsec.bsky.social