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Climate, technology and healthcare: the three areas where Europe can demonstrate global leadership. It is imperative that Europe captures this opportunity to be on the global stage and really create these champions, utilising the skill set of private equity
Foreign message is that ownership works when you have longterm alignment when you design a system a community that thinks and behaves like owners you get Superior results. This is how I think of a private equity backstory designing a system a community for a transformation journey pensioners backed professional ownership with a GP the GP backs professional management and hopefully aligning employees for the journey. Hopefully the industry can teach others in capital markets about longterm vision alignment of stakeholders and not to let the inner fox run the show.
I see three things primarily as the opportunity one to scale Innovation successfully two to promote longtermism in investing and three to create and share the wealth is the three things we talked about one scale Innovation successfully all three words are critical we need Innovation we need scale and we should scale it here in Europe and we need it to be financially very successful that gets more capital to back smart agile motivated creative destruction of an economy that was mostly built last century.
The biggest impact in my view comes not from banking existing technologies and ways of doing things it comes in rolling out new ways.
Turning Strategy into Action - Europe's Financing agenda for growth and competitiveness
External events
26 Nov 2025
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The scale-up gap: Financial market constraints holding back innovative firms in the European Union
External resources
24 Jul 2024
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The Impact of Private Equity on Firms’ Innovation Activity
External resources
01 Apr 2015
Invest Europe welcomes positive changes in the supplementary pensions package and SFDR
Opinion
21 Nov 2025
Response to European Commission Targeted Consultation on Supplementary Pensions
Positions & consultation responses
28 Aug 2025
How private equity, venture capital support pensioners, and broader growth, across Europe
Opinion
25 Apr 2024
Invest Europe launches new guide for pension funds on private equity and venture capital investment
Press releases
03 Oct 2016
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European pension funds’ perceptions of private equity
Data and insight
19 Mar 2015
EVCA warns proposed new pension fund regulation could destroy investment in long-term growth
Press releases
02 Jan 2012