The News: Will the next Steve Jobs be European?Rather delightfully and with no sense of irony at all, they speak to an Alzhiemers research scientist (obviously the sort of work that is going to become a global science business phenominum) who, while pro research in the EU is rather diplomatic about the temptation to work outwith the failing superstate, by referring to a
"better quality of environment for the scientist"(read better pay and conditions/less bureacracy/more freedom to work etc.
The point is that of course it wasn't the science, but the marketing that made Jobs such a success, and a pro business environment.
3 comments:
Trey
Hi Gawain, I love reading your blog because it has very interesting topics.
According to the excellent "Europe on 387m A day" (free pdf: http://tinyurl.com/figg387 ), 400,000 of
America’s one million scientists were born in the EU. #braindrain
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Do you know that the man who designed all those iGadgets with which you fiddle and fondle were designed by a European - and a British European to boot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Ive
And the Central Processing Unit (CPU) in all those fiddlephones and fondleslabs you crave are designed and licensed by a £4b European company - goodness its also British
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Holdings
And lets not forget who invented the Web, yet another European - and another Brit to boot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
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