[Moonman62]

"In old Europe, there's less appetite for innovation," he said at the summit.

It's good to see the phrase "old Europe" is catching on.

[lafroste]

I got adapted to eating sandwiches and drinking milk every day. I believe it's a competitive advantage to be able to do that, because Europe is so diverse

Well, they have the market in non-sequitors pretty well covered. The seed stage funding in the US (at least in the Triangle area) is not all that robust either. I've talked to a lot of VCs and their orbiters who complain of the lack of seed money right now. Of course, then they offer to help me out if I just give them a pile of equity up front for their efforts. No thought of tying said equity to performance or results, just efforts, more precisely, promised efforts. Its aspirin time for sure.

[kidd]

...needs a major push if it wants to create another Nokia or SAP...

SAP has the most user-UNfriendly software.

I don't want anyone to create another SAP.

[DManA]

and needs a major push

I assume the author means big government give aways.

a) This is part of their problem.
b) Governments ALWAYS pick the wrong technology to push.

[capydick]

"In old Europe, there's less appetite for innovation," he said at the summit

I wonder if he caught major hell for using this phrase.

[Adiemus]

"We want our vacations and our social luxuries. This is not the best environment to start a company."

DUH... Translated: socialism sucks.

[expatpat]

What's a "social luxury"?

[q_an_a]

most people forget that Italy is the same is the as Arizona and that Germany is about the size of Montana, thus we have countries with modest land mass scream how advanced they are. The tell everyone their trains are so valuable, which they are, but they fail to mention that Germany and France would fit inside Texas.

These countries are on the way down and they know it, but like the Social Security pimps, over 65, in America they refuse to give anything new a chance. / anti EU rant forever on my mind.