[...] * Enhance demand-side measures such as prizes and procurement: Inducement prizes are a modality of funding of innovation that proved to be successful to reach out and engaged to real innovators. A substantial part of research and innovation funding should be distributed as inducement prize. Procurement is also a largely unexploited tool with high potential, since it covers 16% of EU GDP. Innovative public procurement, in particular towards SMEs, could help reducing the early stage funding gap and help bridging the valley of death. Most importantly, grants, prizes and procurement should be used in an integrated way, covering different phases of the innovation cycle (multi-stage approach). For instance, often public procurement is used to purchase solutions, which emerged from inducement prizes.