Research and Innovation to Thrive in the Poly-crisis Age

This report explores how Europe’s research and innovation (R&I) policy can make a decisive contribution to Europe’s ‘earthshot’—a future of well-being, peace, and sustainability. It calls for R&I to adapt quickly; to be effective for a context of continual mega-crises, complexity, and insecurity; and to fully align with the resulting societal and policy challenges. The authors suggest embracing four principles: take risk to manage risk; direct the action; anticipate, adapt, and learn; and align and integrate.