Easier to top up than to have a pot available and no one using it... Its a new instrument so I guess they couldn't get a good estimate what was needed. Also better if you can select rather than fund everything.

I suppose they will pitch in other funds, e.g. they have encouraged countries to use some of the funds under the Recovery and Resilience Facility to fund projects that got these certificates of quality.

Innovation can be driven by regulation. So what's your point?

No, innovation begets regulation. Deregulation fosters innovation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform

Any source for your statement?

Logic.

How did Deng Xiaoping reform China from economic backwater into the powerhouse we have today? Deregulation, which birthed innovation.

So your sample size is 1? If I show one example of a law which improved innovation, would you consider your claim debunked?

Please cite some examples.

BTW the post you're replying to is factually correct. As a government the EU does not innovative in the sense normally understood by the word, e.g. it does not introduce surprising new products, or (directly) create new technologies. It does however regulate.

I would say that holds true for most if not all governments around the world.

So pointing it out is rather pointless.

Well yes, but FreeSpeech's comment was grey and flagged when I saw it, even though it's indeed kind of so obvious it's pointless. And it had a reply disagreeing, so it needed to be spelled out.