66. The Rise of Europe’s Deep Tech Spinouts
Published: December 17, 2025
Duration: 26:53
In 1990, while working at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee proposed and developed what would become one of the most influential spinouts in history: the World Wide Web. The Web was opened to the public in 1991, and in 1993 CERN released the software into the public domain - enabling its rapid global spread and laying the foundation for today’s modern Internet.
In Episode 66 of The Difference Engine tech strategy podcast, Paul Maher and I explore a new report that shows European spinouts are emerging as a deep-tech powerhouse. Since 2019, they’ve accounted for 40% of all new startups in these fields - an...