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Is this article satire? Conflating inflated valuations, VC, and tech? I thought Bloomberg was a serious source. https://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2017/20170

Is this article satire? Conflating inflated valuations, VC, and tech? I thought Bloomberg was a serious source. https://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2017/20170307.html https://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2017/20170307.html Europe's potential in terms of innovation and technology is also highlighted by the number of European patent applications filed relative to a country's population. Switzerland again topped the ranking in 2016, with 892 applications per million inhabitants. Second and third place went to the Netherlands (405) and Sweden (360), followed by Denmark (334) and Finland (331). The first non-European country was again Japan in ninth place (166), which was above the EU average of 122.

asutekku 8y ago
The problem is not the amount of innovations or technologies created in EU. The point in the article was that many of these innovations are merely regional products and it’s really hard for European companies to make them appeal to the people outside the continent.
- ahartmetz 8y ago
  Even that isn't true for Germany. While too much does depend on cars, there is also a lot of business to business stuff that few people know about.
  - Fnoord 8y ago
    This article is just a prime example of Americans living in their own bubble.
stale2002 8y ago
"inflated valuations" sounds an aweful lot like the investor's problem, not mine. If these USA, inflated valuations cause me, as the developer, to receive inflated salaries, I am perfectly happy with that.