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by claudeganon 2387 days ago
Rates of entrepreneurship are comparable to (and in some cases higher than) the US in most wealthy European countries. The difference in “startup” culture has more to do with the access to capital and the US government’s historic, unmatched investment in technology infrastructure in the context of the Cold War. It’s the same reason why Russia today still punches above its weight in the IT sector.