Antonio Moneo

First, what is needed is a calm, reassuring and transparent policy, one single point of contact with markets and external powers so that entrepreurs and investors feel secure for their investments and their ideas.

The main challenge for the future society is to give people access to information, education and technology, to fight poverty in semi-developed countries but also in our countries.

I think that numerous things need to happen. I think the first one is probably for a lot of people, their mentality needs to change. I think it is a question of people being used to a certain standard of living. which we can no longer afford. I think there is also another aspect to it,as we talked a lot about it today is about research and innovation, which I think it is an important aspect for us to improve and become more efficient. And final part, it will also help us gain a competitive edge, compared to others countries.

There are more and more challenges with the ageing of the population, new diseases that we have to face. We need more research in order to understand and find solutions for these new diseases that we have in front of us. So research is completely fundamental for our quality of life.

Build more nuclear power stations. That's it.

I'm askin myself this question: do we really need growth? Should'nt we need instead a better repartion of ressources? Optimize what we already have could be a good start.

I think that public funded research should always be open source. And I think thiscollides a little bit with the idea of the current move for innovation, which is based on registrating idea and try to profit from it. And I have seen a bunch of cases in Sweden that should be putting an alarm on how we are doing things. For example, a publicly funded PhD, created a small company, a small startup. They created a software, and sold it for x million dollars and this close amount to Apple, an American company.We see this happening again and again. So we see European funding going to countries, from countries to individuals, individuals sign the thing, and then we are locked out of that technology. So I think that the first thing,is that research publicly funded should actually be left to the public domaine. And that will create a different kind of innovative landscape, where companies could compete in the best service on the ideas. And not like we are right now, where companies are just fighting to have the control of the idea, instead of making the best for the users and consumers in general.