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Here's a quick selection, excuse my partisanship, I couldn't find an equivalent list for specifically European innovation: Antibiotics - British Tank - Britis

Here's a quick selection, excuse my partisanship, I couldn't find an equivalent list for specifically European innovation: Antibiotics - British Tank - British Television - at least shared by Britain and others Stereo audio - British Computer - critical aspects conceptualised and realised in Britain Jet engine - largely German/English Radar - largely British Maglev - British Hovercraft - British Float glass process - British Carbon fibre - British Liquid Crystal (or at least a critical step) - British RSA encryption - British World wide web - British SMS - British Shall I go on?

ur-whale 8y ago
The list is mostly from a country that's not exactly in Europe anymore ;) [edit] I should have been more specific and said that I didn't include the Brits in when I think of flagging innovation in western Europe. The focus was on Germany and to some extent the countries directly around it. That being said: not a single union jack in sight in the page below ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_information_technology_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_informatio... You have to get down to #28 to find one in this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_compa... And that's the key: however inventive folks from a given country may be, if the socio-economic system they operate in does impede innovation (and TBH I don't know enough about your island to comment about that), then all of these great ideas are for naught, they end up benefiting others.
- growlist 8y ago
  Getting into semantics now, but I think entrepreneurialism is perhaps better than innovation, since innovation is not exclusive to business situations. But even then I still have difficulty with what you say about innovation though - tech companies are just one area of business! Germany is the world's third largest exporter, with much of its exports containing cutting edge technology designed and manufactured in Germany, but apparently that doesn't count as innovation in your mind as its not on the Internet?

ur-whale 8y ago

The list is mostly from a country that's not exactly in Europe anymore ;) [edit] I should have been more specific and said that I didn't include the Brits in when I think of flagging innovation in western Europe. The focus was on Germany and to some extent the countries directly around it. That being said: not a single union jack in sight in the page below ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_information_technology_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_informatio... You have to get down to #28 to find one in this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_compa... And that's the key: however inventive folks from a given country may be, if the socio-economic system they operate in does impede innovation (and TBH I don't know enough about your island to comment about that), then all of these great ideas are for naught, they end up benefiting others.

growlist 8y ago
Getting into semantics now, but I think entrepreneurialism is perhaps better than innovation, since innovation is not exclusive to business situations. But even then I still have difficulty with what you say about innovation though - tech companies are just one area of business! Germany is the world's third largest exporter, with much of its exports containing cutting edge technology designed and manufactured in Germany, but apparently that doesn't count as innovation in your mind as its not on the Internet?