Leveraging digital technologies and optimizing our nations’ and organizations’ innovation capacity is vital to supporting a recovery that leads to greener, more inclusive, sustainable economies, and stronger, more resilient societies. Set up in March 2020, the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy undertook exactly this challenge: to fundamentally transform the Cypriot society and economy, through digital technology exploitation and a well-tuned research and innovation ecosystem, designed to facilitate agile and swift response to a fast-changing environment, as global developments and technological evolutions continue to take place, accelerate and evolve.