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I don't recognise this description. To me it seems rather easy to just grab some cash off EU or swedish public investment campaigns by having a credible busines
by cess11 1y ago
I don't recognise this description. To me it seems rather easy to just grab some cash off EU or swedish public investment campaigns by having a credible business plan and a project description that fits the campaign.
Research departments at large corporations with the right contacts can get campaigns designed for them, more or less, which I disagree with but it's not like it fits the picture you give.
The EU also does relatively much of "startup" funding through public credit, which is nice, because bad business ideas are killed fast if they can't beg their way into years and years of burning someone else's money, which we due to the private investment sector also had some of until the 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the rate hike.
- bjornsing 1y ago> Research departments at large corporations with the right contacts can get campaigns designed for them, more or less, which I disagree with but it's not like it fits the picture you give. Not sure what you mean... It fits perfectly with the picture I’m trying to convey.
- cess11 1y agoIt's not particularly bureaucratic.
- bjornsing 1y agoI’m using the word ”bureaucrat” mostly as a derogatory term. The problem as I see it is actually a lack bureaucracy. It arises when you hire ”bureaucrats” and tell them ”you are now a general do-gooder who can do whatever you want, like an angel investor but with public money”. The systems that are bureaucratic (in the real sense of the word) actually work pretty well. Sweden owes a lot of its prosperity to a generous unemployment benefits system, for example.