The Commission seeks stakeholders’ feedback to the European Innovation Act through a dedicated call for evidence and public consultation

Only few days left before the closing of the call for evidence and the public consultation for the future European Innovation Act. All interested stakeholders can still submit their feedback until 3 October 2025, on the Have your Say portal and contribute to the future European Innovation Act.

A key deliverable of the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy, the European Innovation Act will take the form of a legislative act, aiming to remove barriers that hamper the commercialisation and diffusion of innovations.

The consultations touch upon challenges in commercialising research results, in industry-academia collaboration, in accessing markets (including the private and the public procurement market) and in accessing finance, talent and research and technology infrastructures. They also address other issues, such as how Europe could benefit from wider use of regulatory sandboxes, an innovation stress test to make legislation more innovation-friendly, reduced administrative and regulatory burden, and from raising and better coordinating overall innovation investments across Europe.

Meanwhile, Member States and Associated Countries were invited to share their expertise on regulatory sandboxes and definitions of startups, scaleups and innovative companies in the meeting of the European Innovation Council Forum that took place on 15 September 2025. The participants had the opportunity to learn more about the future EU Startups and Scaleups Scoreboard that will measure the implementation and impact of the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy.

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European Innovation Act