Europe and Innovation, the ethernal oxymoron
“More soup” Why Europe cannot stand innovation The EU is undergoing one of its periodical "belly button watching" periods, where it laments the lack of technological giants on the continent while the word “giant” fits well with the continent bias toward helping big companies, this is not the end result of a cruelly rational thinking process on the contrary, these periodical rites belay a lack of basic understanding of innovation processes my opinion is that no matter what the public utterances are, the current situation not conducive to any progress is in fact a rational response to the constraints within which the EU public beast has to operate, both in static and dynamic terms. Europe has just undergone one of its periodic bouts of “we must promote an industrial policy !” While this is a much needed distraction from the blooper reel that is the EU's foreignpolicy , the most recent utterances fell on me when I was in my most producti...