> so it is irrelevant to bring it up Actually I do think it's very relevant to point that most of the most valuable US innovations were state funded as a reply

> so it is irrelevant to bring it up Actually I do think it's very relevant to point that most of the most valuable US innovations were state funded as a reply to someone asserting the absolute superiority of private VC funding. The USA is very interventionist for a country promoting free markets as close to a religion. I am not entirely sure what this has to do with Europe however.