[olivierduval]

Sadly, that money will be wasted:

* that money will go to "big corp" who know and have to time to build application forms... even if they don't have the knowledge ("take the money and run")

* that money wont to the "real disruptors" that are small corps because they don't have time or knowledge to build application forms to get the money

[pantalaimon]

Only big corp have the capacity to comply with EU regulation in the first place.

[cbg0]

There's typically much less red tape for smaller funding programs from the EU, so if you're only getting a couple hundred thousand you'll deal with a lot less requirements than a company getting tens of millions. There's still bureaucracy, but it's not as insurmountable as some make it out to be.