{"id":256616,"date":"2026-01-21T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256616\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:20:11","slug":"to-compete-in-the-global-economy-europe-needs-to-boost-its-vc-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256616\/","title":{"rendered":"To Compete in the Global Economy, Europe Needs to Boost Its VC Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_text__yGFNO\" data-first-paragraph=\"true\">Governments worldwide recognize the importance of promoting high-potential start-ups and the institutions that fund them. Europe is no exception. In 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mario_Draghi\" class=\"ContentLink_anchor__Q6_U6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Draghi<\/a>, a former President of the European Central Bank and one-time Italian Prime Minister lamented <a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/topics\/competitiveness\/draghi-report_en\" class=\"ContentLink_anchor__Q6_U6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in an influential report on European competitiveness<\/a> that \u201cno EU company with a market capitalization over EUR 100 billion\u2026has been set up from scratch in the last fifty years, while all six U.S. companies with a valuation above EUR 1 trillion have been created in this period.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Governments worldwide recognize the importance of promoting high-potential start-ups and the institutions that fund them. Europe is no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[72,191,61,60],"class_list":["post-256616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}