Unlocking the Potential of Cleantech Innovation in Europe
A comprehensive overview of Europe’s cleantech innovation landscape, highlighting both the maturity and the key challenges holding back the scale-up of clean technologies.
Investing in innovation
Boosting innovation and digitalisation in Europe. Find out more about how we invest.
The drive to innovate and digitalise exists on a spectrum, spanning from modest improvements in daily business, right up to disruptive innovations that change the way we live such as deep tech, space, defence, AI, life sciences & more.
"Our financing helps businesses to keep pace and move into a brighter future."
Innovation and digitalisation is one of our Public Policy Goals (PPGs), which - since 2020 - are guiding EIF's activity. Our efforts in support of EU priorities take the form of thematic interventions with clear policy targets.
Innovative companies across Europe
Flixbus, Germany
Submer, Spain
Spaceflow, Czechia
TecSense, Austria
Union Therapeutics, Denmark
Infarm, Germany
Our products
Here at the EIF we offer a range of financial solutions aimed at fostering innovation & digital transformation. Here is a selection of innovative & digital focussed products. Or you can choose to view our entire product catalogue.
Our impact in 2024
In his report, Mario Draghi was very clear about the challenge we face on the innovation front: “Europe must profoundly refocus its collective efforts on closing the innovation gap with the US and China, especially in advanced technologies.”
Over the past year, building on recent trends, we have intensified our equity activity in order to fuel the European innovation ecosystem. This has ranged from investments in VC, PE, PC and infrastructure, but also taken the form of new initiatives and partnerships.
We have committed €3.1bn to innovation and digitalisation investments in 2024. Get more inisghits in the EIF Annual Report.
Innovation finance over time
Innovation has always been one of our driving forces. Over the years, we have developed different mandates promoting and supporting an always more innovative Europe. Discover our approach to innovation.
InvestEU
Helping to achieve InvestEU objectives by crowding in private funding and supporting Europe’s small businesses. A long-term funding in support of Europe’s sustainable recovery. It helps to mobilise private investments for the EU's top policy priorities, such as the green, and digital transition, innovation and social investments and skills.
Focus areas
Explore some of the areas we invest in within the innovation and digitalisation world. Across several sectors, we have been supporting a significant amount of businesses all around EU. How many are you able to recognise?