Europe's Software Problem
I take offense at such massive overgeneralizations as &quot;Europe lacks imagination.&quot;<p>What it lacks is freely flowing funding such that risky enterprises can be funded even if 1 out of ten or 1 out of hundred actually are successful. This kills business models which cannot show any profit whatsoever, and a large portion of the remainder are killed by data regulations forbidding &quot;alternate paths of monetization&quot; (to put it charitably.)<p>Rather, a problem is that once a European project becomes successful enough, it soon becomes an American project, either by acquisition or by moving to where the investment money is.