
Can Europe innovate at war(p) speed? - with the NATO Innovation Fund
The war in Ukraine is now four years old, and the nature of modern warfighting - and Europe’s defence needs - has shifted dramatically as a result. Lizzy and Paul talk to John Ridge and Erin Hallock of the NATO Innovation Fund, a multi‑government‑backed venture capital fund, about the accelerating pace of innovation on the battlefield, why governments must procure and adopt defence technology far faster to turn late‑stage prototypes into scalable capability, and how the Fund is finding and funding early‑stage defence, security and resilience businesses.
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