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# ECIPE's Dugo maps EU's EUR 740 billion cumulative R&D gap against the US
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-02-05-ecipe-europe-innovation-gap-report/
- Published: 2026-02-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T13:55:18.000Z
- Description: ECIPE's Andrea Dugo finds the EU's cumulative corporate R&D shortfall against the US reached around EUR 740 billion by 2024, EUR 114 billion in that year alone, and argues Europe lacks mechanisms to scale innovative firms into leaders.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Industry, investment and R&D, #news, #verified, #opinion, #ai-drafted

Verified Opinion AI-drafted [ECIPE analysis, 5 February 2026](https://ecipe.org/insights/europes-innovation-gap/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that any EU institution has adopted a policy response to the gap.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. Paper quantifies an EU-wide R&D shortfall; no institution acts, so moves none. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)