DC faces Silicon Valley's riches and ever-growing power

Re:DC faces Silicon Valley's riches and ever-growing power by yummyfajitas on Sunday April 17, 2016 @09:56PM (#11517269)

As a result Europe contributes very little innovation to the world and just piggybacks off what everyone else built. That's fine - USA and China will move things forward, and India is joining the party. But if everyone did this we wouldn't have all those things that make the modern world great.

(I do wish Europe could at least stop being counterproductive, and just not surrender to terrorists. http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/25/french-anti-uber-protest-tu... http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29/uber-france-leaders-arreste... )

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Re:DC faces Silicon Valley's riches and ever-growing power by cmarschner on Monday April 18, 2016 @03:46AM (#11518321)

If you take patent rates Europe (or at least some of its member countries) are pretty competitive. However innovation happens a) in old companies, b) in SMEs which are not venture-backed, hence don't have the same leverage.

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Re:DC faces Silicon Valley's riches and ever-growing power by eli_gottlieb on Sunday April 17, 2016 @10:05PM (#11517307)

So Europe contributes every little innovation to the world... based on which numbers about European tech companies or start-ups? I mean, if you want some conflicting anecdata from a marketing department, here it is: http://www.eu-startups.com/.

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Re:DC faces Silicon Valley's riches and ever-growing power by yummyfajitas on Sunday April 17, 2016 @10:50PM (#11517454)

The top story on the page is about an AirBnb clone raising money from NY rich people.

You've pretty much answered the question - "if everyone did this", we probably wouldn't even have that German company at the top of the eu-startups.com marketing page.

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