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    Europa wird vom Nobelpreisträger aufgefordert, den technologischen Niedergang zu stoppen


    Europa wird vom Nobelpreisträger aufgefordert, den technologischen Niedergang zu stoppen

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/europe-urged-by-nobel-prize-winner-to-stop-technological-decline

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    1. bloomberg on

      *From Bloomberg News reporters Francine Lacqua and Alexander Weber:*

      Europe must do more to foster innovation and stop leaning on other parts of the world for technological advancement, according to Philippe Aghion, who jointly won the 2025 Nobel Prize for economics.

      The continent “has been the kind of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ over the past 30, 40 years,” the French economist told Bloomberg Television in Paris. “They thought they could rely on the US, on others, and not invest heavily in breakthrough high-tech innovation and defense.”

      “Now the Europeans realize, I hope, that they need to rely on themselves more than in the past,” he added. “And they need to reverse this technological decline they’ve been experiencing.”

    2. StevenAdamsInDallas on

      Can’t compete with the US when taxation is so high in Europe, the salaries can’t compete.

      If the EU wants to have an increase in technological development, they should offer just compensation and taxation benefits.

    3. met_20991 on

      Srry i prefer the protection of my data and the regulations of the European Law over the hell of the monopoly of the „techno-bros“ of the major firms as in USA

    4. Sevinki on

      Unfortunately Europe is turning into an open air Museum.

      We need radical reforms if we are to reverse this trend and keep up with the americans and chinese. There need to be more incentives to work hard instead of doing the bare minimum, it needs to be easier to start and scale a business (hopefully EU Inc. will help with that), there needs to be less red tape, no more years long delays due to some frogs or birds living somewhere, no more artificially expensive energy due to taxes and carbon offsets, it all needs to end.

      We need to focus on the basics, policy that creates the most growth and innovation possible.

    5. elkond on

      „nobel prize“, looks inside, in economics

      aah, okay, we can continue as we were then

    6. TheoremaEgregium on

      Just for once I want to see such a proposal that doesn’t boil down to:

      * Destroy the environment as if it were a race.
      * Remove employee protections to make them work harder for less pay and under worse conditions.
      * Give billionaires more power over you.

    9. MBouh on

      Problem is the rich people in Europe are oligarch who only seek safe rent. They will not spend a cent is anything that’s not guaranteed to earn back at least 10 times the investment. Which is usually done with public (from EU or countries) investment. Those assholes need to give the money back so we can do useful things with it.

    10. DKHTBH on

      Not sure why everyone is equating innovation with destroying the environment and eroding the rights of workers here – he’s not advocating for a US style system. The Draghi Report outlined a strategy to make Europe more competitive and innovative *without* undermining our social systems and privacy, and actually called for leveraging those as an advantage over the US.

    11. Yasirbare on

      If my memoria technica is somewhat intact, *technica* is about skills and and art. Technology is no absolute, it can take many forms and directions. We could use technology to avoid mass waste of materials for consumer robots or we could build them to go into the mines.

    12. Most_Grocery4388 on

      European Expert, Europe is falling behind in tech. This sub… fuck that guy we are the best everyone has dumb tech and fails to see our greatness

    13. tortorototo on

      Ironically, Philippe Aghion is indirectly contributing to this state. Research and development was rooted in national projects throughout most of the 20th century. As we transitioned into neoliberal economic policy, people started believing that research and development can be handled by the free market, going beyond just the application side. The USA had more of a tradition of private research, which is why this transition ended up hurting them less (US Innovation today is way less impressive compared to the 50s-70s). Europe has less of an entrepreneur culture, and with the decrease in national projects, funds are simply under-allocated. Europe used to have strong public research sector, e.g., military, nuclear, etc. It’s all decreasing for decades already, with funds used for tax breaks. Europe has a lot of capable experts who simply struggle to get the funding, and end up leaving to the US or China, where either the private or public sector, respectively, have more capital.

      Aghion’s work feeds into this false narrative by treating research as a market phenomenon, and underestimating the importance of the public sector. This is just another example when a Nobel price, founded by right-wing economists to legitimise their incorrect ideas, was yet again used to push their own propaganda.

      What Europe needs is more investment into it’s public sector, and start successful companies from there. It is much more culturally aligned, and much more realistic approach than trying to make the EU more like the US.

    14. aiart13 on

      At what technology Europe is presumably in „decline“? It’s like a matra at this point and everybody is mumbling it but I fail to see decline at all. Not owning an europe version of facebook is not techological decline. Russians got their VK, are they technology advanced compared to us?

      It’s just something that’s not true at all.

    15. FreshRelationship575 on

      One of the biggest issues I encountered in Europe, is how expansive it is to register a patent, especially compared to US. More than that, US has a way to provisionally secure your patent, before you actually get funded. So they have adeep understanding of innovation mechanisms. Meanwhile, we hire US lawyers to secure our patents only in US. European commission is straight stupid and lazy, in full complacency. A european mandate is considered retirement. A warm place, a warm job. Sometimes I wonder if it even makes sense to send your children to Uni.

    16. FireZord25 on

      Innovation can hardly happen as smoothly when the ouroboros of capitalism has almost reached its own neck. Especially when the head is more focused on making money at all costs rather than the end goals of progress and service.

    17. Marl_Karx_Official on

      Europe shouldn’t want massive tech companies, they will fuck you just like they are fucking us Americans

    18. Over-Willingness-933 on

      The education is there in Europe. I feel the issue is more, the expansion requires capital and the US has a much better financial system which expands organisations. The taxes and state oversight is much higher in Europe. It’s much easier in Texas.

    20. AdSevere1274 on

      Two things can be done quite easily.. Allowing for max 40% foreign ownership of high tech stuff.. Another is to actually consume the tech goods within Europe. You can’t vamp up tech and then hope for the best and not consume it. The Americans companies that buy the stuff, market it or buy it to shut down their competition.

      Use it or lose it..

    21. octahexxer on

      Most tech tech companies died in the dot Com the survivors sold out to other countries then put it all in USA techbro platforms and outsourced everything to India firing everyone.

      They did this in the name of greed… I will not shed as single tear for them now.

    22. SeriesDowntown5947 on

      Need to remove woke and get competive everywhere all the time or we will fall behind china usa india etc

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