Comment by fforflo
5 months ago
In the EU, we need some social contracts for those things. Multiple EU-funded projects are launched, consortiums between Unis and Private sector companies are created, deliverables are delivered, and grants are allocated, but the cumulative results haven't been that great, have they? That has happened for every "trend," from nuclear physics to "expert systems" in the 1990s to green tech, now AI, etc.
Here's the simple question - who gets fired when the deliverables aren't met?
This is the single greatest motivators for American companies in our exhausting capitalistic society.