Michiel Scheffer has spent his entire life at the interface between science, politics and business. The Dutchman was born into a family of entrepreneurs – his father and grandfather were CEOs. „I was always running around among the machines as a child“, says Scheffer in an interview. He soon became interested in how business works, but above all how innovation works. Today, he is Chairman of the Board of the European Innovation Council (EIC) – and will be discussing the topic at the Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin on Nov. 8.