02 / JANUARY 2023
“The best way to have a good idea is to
have lots of ideas,” the double Nobel prize
winning scientist Linus Pauling once said.
Thankfully this is something Europe has
always being good at: generating great
ideas. They have shaped our amazing
continent and transformed the wider world.
And now, as we seek solutions to some
of the biggest challenges this planet has
ever faced, Europe is once again ready
to lead, with our ideas, our vision, and our
commitment to delivering the first climate-
neutral continent.
So, I am obviously delighted and truly
inspired by the number of game changing,
actionable ideas being added daily to the
European Innovation Area portal, created
by our Knowledge4Innovation (K4I) Forum in
the European Parliament to provide a home
for transformative and sustainable ideas -
some of which you can read about in this
magazine.
As Chair of the Forum, it gives me a huge
amount of pride to see groundbreaking
initiatives like this, brought to the fore by an
organisation that has been at the forefront
of Europe’s innovation landscape since
2008.
The influence of the K4I Forum is something
Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for
Innovation, recognised in her speech at the
Forum’s inaugural European Innovation Area
Summit last summer, when she said: “The
Knowledge4Innovation platform has served
the objective of providing the European
Parliament, the European Commission, and
Maria da Graça Carvalho, MEP
Chair of the Knowledge4Innovation Forum in the European Parliament