I am European, and I wish this was not true, but you are so right. It happens everywhere, SMEs, mittelstands, corporations... Even at top EU universities, in m

I am European, and I wish this was not true, but you are so right. It happens everywhere, SMEs, mittelstands, corporations... Even at top EU universities, in many fields, most professors are managers that despise technical know how! I have worked at several US universities, and this was not the case. Plus hierarchies were much flatter. Social structures here in the EU make lots of innovation surprisingly hard.