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Which high-volume countries underperform the overall full proposal rate?

EIC Accelerator Step 2 Full Proposal Statistics: Country Success Rates, Sector Odds, Gender Data, and Year Trends

Israel, Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland, Portugal, and Türkiye are high or mid-volume examples below the overall 22.8% rate.

The article uses this pattern to show that volume alone does not create stronger Step 2 conversion.