ICONS Innovation Strategies

🔋 Scaling batteries is no longer about expansion: it’s about hitting precise targets.
The era of scaling everything is over.

Today, success means identifying which technologies can deliver on three critical objectives:
• Lower costs
• Meet EU regulatory timelines and compliance requirements
• Demonstrate industrial manufacturability at scale

With demand shifting and margins tightening, the key question is no longer what can scale, but what can scale efficiently and reliably.

Innovation management has become a filtering function: separating technologies that are bankable and deployable from those that aren't. Strategic coherence now matters as much as technical performance. Welcome to selective scaling: the new discipline shaping Europe's battery future.

👉 Explore how industrial KPIs, cost realism, and regulatory readiness are redefining scale-up strategies: https://www.icons.it/battery-innovation/

The brain is the fundamental organ of the central nervous system. As the main driver of human cognitive functions, it governs different processes by sending and receiving chemical and electrical signals. Some of its messages remain within the brain, while others are relayed across the body. To do this, it relies on a network of around 85 billion neurons. The precision of their interactions – and of this intricate “chain of command” – is now inspiring one of the most pioneering experiments in robotics: what specialists call “neurocellular automata”.

Discover more in the Diego Giuliani article, featuring Kasper Støy, professor of robotics and a member of the “Robotic Evolution, and Artificial Life” research group at the IT University of Copenhagen and scientific coordinator of the EU-funded project MOZART; and Lucia Beccai, head of the Soft BioRobotics Perception research line at Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

Neural logic for gentle robots — MOZART Robotics Inspired by neural logic, the MOZART project explores how gentle robots can manipulate delicate objects precisely.

Europe’s most radical innovations often struggle to attract credit despite their transformative potential. Supporting deep tech is no longer just about research, but about competitiveness, autonomy and leadership in a global tech race.

Discover more in the Diego Giuliani interview, with Stefania De Santi, project coordinator of the EU-funded project and project manager at APRE - Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea.

Dreams are now reality. Supporting visionaries to turn ideas into market-ready technologies - Deepsync Europe’s most radical innovations often struggle to attract credit despite their transformative potential. Supporting deep tech is no longer just about research, but about competitiveness, autonomy and leadership in a global tech race.