The future through sustainable innovation. In the competition between systems

Against the backdrop of the current political, economic and military situation around the world, it is clear what has been sorely lacking in the recent past – strategic thinking. The key to a successful strategy for Europe is innovation. The pressure of the current crises should be used to accelerate the transition to sustainable innovation. This is how the real big problem facing humanity – the global environmental and climate crisis – should be solved.

However, it is important not to rely on a single solution, but rather to bundle the entire technological potential in an innovation portfolio. To this end, the advantages and disadvantages of solar and wind energy, hydropower, hydrogen, nuclear and fusion energy, for example, must be weighed up for Europe and combined in a ‘hybrid’ energy system in order to gear the European innovation portfolio towards a sustainable future.

As with the energy issue, it is important not to rely on a single solution for digitalisation and artificial intelligence, but rather to bundle the entire technological potential in an innovation portfolio in order to be energy-efficient and sustainable. In the competition between value systems, Europe should distinguish itself through democratic legal certainty.