Sunday, August 3, 2025

The Innovation Race

What If the US Isn’t the World’s Most Innovative Country?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-01/what-if-the-us-isn-t-the-world-s-most-innovative-country
The question of who is winning the innovation race is more complicated than it appears — and the answer is more interesting. 

History Warns us About the Dangers of Trump’s Brain Drain
https://time.com/7298847/history-dangers-trumps-brain-drain

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End by Ross Andersen
https://www.aol.com/news/scientific-empires-end-110000781.html
Three-fourths of American scientists who responded to a recent poll by the journal Nature said they are considering leaving the country. They don’t lack for suitors. China is aggressively recruiting them, and the European Union has set aside a €500 million slush fund to do the same. National governments in Norway, Denmark, and France—nice places to live, all—have green-lighted spending sprees on disillusioned American scientists. The Max Planck Society, Germany’s elite research organization, recently launched a poaching campaign in the U.S., and last month, France’s Aix-Marseille University held a press conference announcing the arrival of eight American “science refugees.”