[highwaylights]

Sure, but where’s the problem? If those companies are succeeding because they offered those incentives then it forces others to do the same or fail.

[trashtester]

I'm not sure you noticed, but Europe simply doesn't have the kind of tech sector that the US and increasingly China and even India have.

In fact, I'm not sure I know of a single global top 100 company (by market cap) that is a European tech company founded in the past 40 years.

Compensation models is almost certainly part of the reason, in addition to taxation, regulations, culture, etc.