Beyond Company Law: What EU Inc. Solves, And What Deep Tech Still Needs

Beyond Company Law:

What EU Inc. Solves, What Deep Tech Still Needs, and How the 28th Regime Can Go Further

Maria Ksenia Witte & Olga Mamlyga · Arise Innovations® in collaboration with Quantum Scouts ApS · May 2026

EU Inc. is a meaningful reform. But for deep tech, it is not the answer to the right question.

This report is an independent structural analysis of the European Commission's proposed 28th Regime corporate legal framework — evaluated specifically against the requirements of deep tech development. It does not argue against EU Inc. It places it accurately: as a necessary legal infrastructure reform that leaves three decisive structural layers unaddressed.

What this report covers:

• A precise description of all seven EU Inc. policy packages and what they actually deliver
• A structural diagnosis of why deep tech fails in Europe — and why the causes are not primarily legal
• An honest assessment of what EU Inc. gets right for deep tech, including ESOP harmonisation, cross-border operations, and digital incorporation
• Seven identified structural gaps: the time logic gap, the capital sequencing gap, the industrialisation gap, the institutional governance gap, the late-stage capital architecture gap, the risk of accelerating misaligned dynamics, and the enforceability gap
• A concrete articulation of what the next modules of the 28th Regime would need to contain
• Stakeholder implications for programme directors, funders, TTOs, corporate innovation units, and policymakers
• A methodological appendix on the 4×4-TETRA Deep Tech Matrix™ institutional governance layer
• A full deep tech assessment matrix across 16 structural dimensions
• European evidence on non-VC deep tech commercialisation pathways

Who this is for:

Programme directors and governance leads at public-private deep tech initiatives · Funders and oversight bodies · Technology transfer offices and incubators · Corporate innovation units engaged in deep tech · Policymakers working on the 28th Regime's subsequent modules · Researchers and ecosystem actors working on innovation governance

Format: PDF, ~50 pages

Language: English

Published: 4 May 2026

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20026136

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 — may be cited with attribution; not for commercial redistribution or modification

The question is not whether Europe can form deep tech companies more easily. It is whether the institutions around those companies are structured to turn scientific capability into industrial and market outcomes.