That's a very good point.

Germany was always brilliant at mechanical engineering, their universities are decent in general, but very good at all forms of mechanical/chemical engineering.

US is mad keen on software and entrepreneurship and its top universities churn out software startup founders like nowhere else. It's just a pity software ain't what it was 10 years ago.

Perhaps the deep cadres of really well educated engineers, and thus available work force, is the determining factor here.

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dzhiurgis 7 months ago | parent [-]

Sounds like a good balance - Europe does science, US entrepreneurs, China manufacturing.

	▲	rich_sasha 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		Ha, well, it feels increasingly like China is eating everyone's lunch. Fair play to them, that's only what the West had done for the past, hmm, 300 years? But of course a bit bleak for European and US GDP.