Ovidiu Mihăilă, founder at fundingloop, talked to BR about how delaying intellectual property strategies jeopardises European funding for early-stage Romanian deep tech startups. He noted that embedding into international consortia provides crucial evaluator credibility, delivering strategic network advantages that routinely outweigh the direct financial value of the targeted grants themselves. By Ovidiu Poșircă How is the European Commission’s focus on geopolitical autonomy and “made in EU”