Christian StöckerFeb 17
What Europe should do RIGHT NOW: Make it extremely easy for US scientists to get long-term visa, create as many additional research jobs in key areas as possible, create new, generous science and research funds. People are losing their jobs over there NOW. Let‘s welcome them.
Show threadSimon Deane-JohnsFeb 17
@chrisstoecker …just as the US did for European scientists in the ‘30s!
Show threadAttila KinaliFeb 17
@sdjohns @chrisstoecker The US is still getting a lot of European scientists. There are just simply many more positions available in the US than there are in Europe. Thus a lot of promising scientists move to the US, because even a scientist needs to pay bills.
Show threadSimon Deane-JohnsFeb 17
@attilakinali @chrisstoecker Sure, but the need to develop/prefer EU technology to wean the bloc off US tech could lure them back
Show threadAttila Kinali

@sdjohns @chrisstoecker The US tech that Europe depends on is mostly large web companies and computer and chip manufacturers.

We don't need to develop those technologies, they already are developed and known. It's a problem of industry development and difference in funding availability for start-ups including a different start-up culture that leads to the US being a hotbed of these large tech companies. It is not an issue of not having the brain power or people available.

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