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[โ€“] silver_wings_of_morning@feddit.dk 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Starting with the assumption that the US does many technology related things better, we should just adopt a mantra of making second-best copies of whatever the US does better.

Catching up is always quicker and cheaper than being the first to get there.

Invest in copying.

[โ€“] tfm 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even better, do it in the public! FOSS is the way to go

[โ€“] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

Yup. Just make the copying blatantly obvious and protect the new project from copyright/IP claims.

[โ€“] pathos@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Finally, first real feasible comment about EU catching up to US and China. This is how countries like Korea, despite how tiny it is compared to the EU, still grow so well economically and stay #1 in various areas of competition. They play 'catch up then compete' game so well and are probably the best at it. They become #2 or top 5 or whatever in many things, synthesise them together to become #1. Even integrated solutions of these #2 offerings combined are what makes their packaged offerings so compelling.

China is way ahead of the US, this will take a long time and even then will never work.