[username_my1]

This also blows my mind, instead of adding more berucracy to apply for funding to review funding to give funding.

just give tax credits based on innovation / investment criteria, to both companies and employees, Europe needs digitalization so badly, yet they find more complex ways to enable it.

[Temporary_31337]

Tax credits make sense for companies already with a steady profit margin. Cloud in particular is a capex heavy business so for a new company that is not very useful for at least the first few years.

[username_my1]

that's why you give credit to investors not just compnaies.

[deanishe]

> just give tax credits

On what? The EU doesn't levy any taxes and has no authority to.

The reason they're paying with grants is because that's what they've got.