欧洲议会以411票通过国防创新报告：警告初创企业被迫卖给非欧盟投资者或外迁美国
欧洲议会11月12日以411票赞成、133票反对、41票弃权通过一份国防创新报告，呼吁欧盟减轻国防初创企业与中小企业不成比例的行政负担、改善融资渠道，让在欧洲发明的技术留在欧洲生产，而不是被迫卖给非欧盟投资者或迁往美国等地。
报告由议会安全与防务委员会起草、拉脱维亚籍议员 Mārtiņš Staķis 任报告人。报告指出，欧洲国防初创与中小企业面临两道「死亡之谷」：一是技术开发到能力验证之间，二是验证完成到被市场采用之间；资金申请、测试与采购程序冗长。自2021年欧洲防务基金首次征集以来，只有7%的融资流向与创新和中小企业相关的项目线，尽管中小企业提供了欧洲国防系统总价值的约70%。议员们对许多欧洲国防企业因欧盟内部缺乏愿意出资的资本而被迫出售给非欧盟投资者或迁址表示关切，并呼吁给这些企业真正的合同与测试设施、由成员国联合采购、取消27国重复审批，同时加大对无人机与反无人机系统的支持，并借鉴乌克兰压缩创新与采购周期的经验。
Staķis 说：「欧洲不缺好想法，缺的是承担风险的意愿。我们的小公司发明出优秀的新国防技术，但往往永远进不了生产，或者最后在美国或其他地方长大。如果它是在欧洲发明的，就必须在欧洲制造。」
（来源：欧洲议会）
European Parliament Adopts Defence Innovation Report 411-133: Warns Start-Ups Are Forced to Sell to Non-EU Investors or Relocate
The European Parliament adopted a defence innovation report on November 12 by 411 votes in favour, 133 against and 41 abstentions, calling on the EU to ease the disproportionate administrative burdens and improve access to finance for defence start-ups and small and medium-sized companies, so that technology invented in Europe is made in Europe instead of being sold to non-EU investors or relocated, including to the United States.
The report, prepared by the Committee on Security and Defence with Latvian MEP Mārtiņš Staķis as rapporteur, finds that Europe's defence start-ups and SMEs face two distinct 'valleys of death': between technological development and capability validation, and between validation and market adoption, with lengthy funding, testing and procurement procedures. Since the first European Defence Fund call in 2021, only 7% of its financing has gone to project lines linked to innovation and SMEs, even though SMEs provide about 70% of the total value of European defence systems. MEPs expressed concern that many European defence actors are forced to sell to non-EU investors or relocate because of a lack of available and willing capital within the EU, and called for real contracts and testing facilities for smaller companies, joint procurement by member states, an end to 27 separate approval processes, more dedicated support for drones and counter-drone systems, and lessons from Ukraine's compressed innovation and procurement timelines.
'Europe has no shortage of brilliant ideas. What it is short of is the willingness to take risks,' Staķis said. 'Our small companies invent excellent new defence technologies, but too often they never make it into production, or they end up growing in the United States or elsewhere. If it is invented in Europe, it must be made in Europe.'
(Source: European Parliament)
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