Germany’s chief innovator Rafael Laguna is pushing for more freedom in start-up funding

Rafael Lagoon

The Sprind boss will manage a funding budget of 180 million euros in 2023 – and would like to be able to deal with it more freely.

(Photo: Sprind)

Berlin For three years, Rafael Laguna, as Germany’s chief innovator, has been looking for breakthrough innovations that bring groundbreaking progress. But his contract as head of the federal agency for disruptive innovations “Sprind” expires at the end of 2022 – and Laguna is still undecided whether to accept the federal government’s offer for a full four-year term, he said in an interview with the Handelsblatt. He will continue to work for the time being, but Laguna does not want to commit to four years just yet.

Because the agency still lacks the freedoms that it believes it urgently needs. The “freedom law” promised by the traffic light in the coalition agreement should help.

The idea: to promote innovators and start-ups quickly, flexibly and free from the technical supervision of the ministries and to let the financed projects work much faster and free from the federal budget regulations. The law would be an approach to the world of founders and venture capitalists, in contradiction to the traditional way of working of federal ministries.

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