> P.s. of course, 1 and 2 work well in a world where you have USA, where people do kill themselves to deliver loads of innovation to the whole planet (see: inte

> P.s. of course, 1 and 2 work well in a world where you have USA, where people do kill themselves to deliver loads of innovation to the whole planet (see: internet, space exploration, etc.). Sorry, but as Italian I feel that there is a little bit of bias in this statement. I would encourage you to look at the ratio of innovation over funding in Italy compared with the USA, please define "innovation" in whichever way you like the best. In Italy you will never have something like Snapchat nor AirBnB, but arguably the work done in our laboratories are pretty advanced and technical also in the internet and space exploration field, however we don't get much cover. What is true, however is that most of the technology advancement in Italy is done in the north, in the same way that most of the technology advancement in the US is not done in the Midwest