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The EPO’s Chief Patent Research and Policy Office, Gilles Requena, took part in a panel joined by start-up founders and VC funders to discuss how scaling up can be successful for European start-ups. They discussed issues like market fragmentation in Europe or lack of a common capital market, highlighted in our last EIB-EPO joint study “Financing and commercialisation of cleantech innovation”, or the benefits of the Unitary Patent for startups