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Europa : dont make others as fools and dont sheep the media
No score for this post January 9 2006, 8:50 AM

quote one of yours :
“Well there is also the fact that Europe usually spend half the money in R&D than the USA to reach the same results”.
this is light said but contains truth, at least for one reason :
one scientist costs twice as much in the us than in europe and much more in asian countries : i.e. for the same amount of money, you have 2,3,10 times more scientists & engineers at work than in the US.
i.e. europe graduates more engineers & Sc. phd than the usa and much more of them are on technical & science jobs.

The other bias that does not corrupt the Congress’ analysis is that patenting has only an interest when adressed to a private market, i.e. : not pure science, not upstream science, not military/secret science, not industrial process equipment improvement, only partially software & health research.
I.e. patents numbers do not represent the actual strength of a scientific sector of a country, but the technical content of what is sold on the open market : nothing more.
The fact is that the US are now absent in the fields of heavy industrial processes & machineries, where before they were dominant, even when not in deliveries.
In these fields, japan & europe hold 90% of recent industrial know-how.
the US leading edge research is concentrated in the strategic sectors of warfare, and part of health, information technology & sensors…only partially opened to intensive patented research.
Moreover, and this is absolutely normal for a leading state, these fields are heavily funded at federal level, directly of through overpriced federal markets.
US Congress heavily focusses since years on evaluating various aspects of the relative scientific position of the us to the other countries, more than on irak, afganistan, etc.