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"It's easy to "innovate" when you're starting from a "clean slate"." This is an interesting remark. It seems that countries like Estonia or Poland, which signi
by inglor_cz 2y ago
"It's easy to "innovate" when you're starting from a "clean slate"."
This is an interesting remark. It seems that countries like Estonia or Poland, which significantly overhauled their systems in the 1990s, are more innovative than Italy, Germany or France, whose systems are much older and somewhat ossified / clogged with bureaucracy.
But the US system is even older, and it still produces good results. Heck, the UK system is ancient, and the UK has a lot of innovation going on, both in tech and biotech.
- tagyro 2y agoI'll give a different example: Romania (mostly) skipped (A/V)DSL and went directly to optical fiber, which resulted in having the top-spot in download speed for a couple of years. The US started from 100m ahead - the level Europe was at the time - so they already had a foundation - and (imo) made it easier to look ahead from atop a (100m) mound.