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mrna, stable diffusion, extreme ultraviolet lithography, CRISPR, graphene isolation, ozempic... are the first that come to mind.


Is this really all European? A couple things where it seeks your claim is wrong…

MRNA - Pfizer, Moderna, and DARPA (who was involved in funding research) are all American. Just not BioNTech

Stable diffusion - the original diffusion paper was at Stanford in the US, not Europe

EUV - a DARPA project whose tech was licensed to ASML

That said, American tech depends on getting great talent from all over.


BioNTech was founded by 2 turks, they are not even european lol :)


They are both German citizens instead of showing false national pride you should think about why you had an astronomical brain drain over the last 20 years.


Either you like it or not like it, your system is falling and is not competitive.


good discussion but I guess with that name nothing else to expect.




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