Why does Europe suck at technological innovation?
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Re: Why does Europe suck at technological innovation?
#2An interesting data point. Look at the top 5 languages in the TIOBE index. Of them C++, C# and PHP were all created by Europeans. (In fact all 3 are Danes by birth.) To the best of my knowledge their founders live in Texas, Washington and California respectively.
This is not a small problem for Europe.
Re: Why does Europe suck at technological innovation?
#3Small markets doesn't seem to explain it. Germany alone has the world's fourth-largest GDP, which sounds like a pie worth slicing. Despite this, Russia, whose GDP is less than half as large, has a bigger (iirc) tech industry than Germany. I think the latter explanation -- market restrictions -- is more likely, and research spending probably contributes as well.
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#4Also Europe isn't causing massive bubbles every other year that throw half of the world into a depression. Just wondering if this is related, not trying to start a flame-war or whatever.
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#5It just isn't true. Europe just does not "suck" at tech innovation. Some europeans move to the US to have a bigger impact, and/or because that's where tech money is.
The US evolved a giant media+capital machine to make this happen, and this means making it hard for others to do the same - by being more attractive, in real terms of course, but maybe even more so in people's minds. I see articles criticizing other regions of the world for not having as much success as part of this (very natural, imho) process.
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#6An interesting data point. Look at the top 5 languages in the TIOBE index. Of them C++, C# and PHP were all created by Europeans. (In fact all 3 are Danes by birth.) To the best of my knowledge their founders live in Texas, Washington and California respectively. This is not a small problem for Europe.
nowadays they could be living in europe if they want also... but the title of the post is about innovation.... europeans have their own way to innovate and that wont be reflected on US news papers because they just dont care, are closed minded or there are interests in that or who knows what...
Re: Why does Europe suck at technological innovation?
#7Small markets doesn't seem to explain it. Germany alone has the world's fourth-largest GDP, which sounds like a pie worth slicing. Despite this, Russia, whose GDP is less than half as large, has a bigger (iirc) tech industry than Germany. I think the latter explanation -- market restrictions -- is more likely, and research spending probably contributes as well.
What the frack are you counting as tech industry that you managed to Russia have more than Germany?
Re: Why does Europe suck at technological innovation?
#8Small markets doesn't seem to explain it. Germany alone has the world's fourth-largest GDP, which sounds like a pie worth slicing. Despite this, Russia, whose GDP is less than half as large, has a bigger (iirc) tech industry than Germany. I think the latter explanation -- market restrictions -- is more likely, and research spending probably contributes as well.
What the frack are you counting as tech industry that you managed to Russia have more than Germany?
Yandex and Mail.ru IPOs I would guess.
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#9ARM Holdings was the first company that popped into my head when I read the headline. Without ARM there would be no Facebook/Twitter because inexpensive mobile computing probably wouldn't have been invented yet.
Re: Why does Europe suck at technological innovation?
#10The title of the article is misleading. Yearly revenues do not necessarily mean technological innovation. There is plenty of innovation in Europe (and a lot of it gets sold to US companies who get to increase their annual revenues with it).