[2024-10-19]
It’s a gigantic and personally fascinating topic. What should/should not happen/happened to EU tech/startup ecosystem for it to be so lagging the US in that regard.
It’s a topic of a big competitiveness report (which is a separate thing, just mentioning now)
My hypothesis - it’s from ‘what you do is who you are’ principle. And I’ve been looking at few small things at that regard also learning open data portals and exercising on some viz/transformation skills.
That meaning - maybe EU regulates, because regulators have power and for people working on policies and various institutions enabling and creating them - primary area of training is ‘regulatory’, not ‘productive’.
Which is reasonable, and not a source of success for competitors, but may it be source for fail?
I’m not attempting to answer, just looking at few points for personal understanding
p1. Eurocomission departmental composition
Depending how to count, it doesn’t look like Tech-related works are in top-5 by count?
p2. Bundestag share with STEM-related background
If one to go more granular, is there an optimal share of STEM-educated MPs in national parliaments? Does it help to have great tech policies and progress?
Personally - no idea; don’t strictly think so, as it depends, but seeing clear tech-educated, or more so tech-positive agendas would’ve helped I presume.
