Looking for op-eds, podcasts, threads, and off-the-cuff comments on Trump's impact on the European tech sector. Will EU countries brain-drain the US? Will Virkunnen bring Europe tech sovereignty? If you have thoughts (yours or someone else's) on these and similar topics, please send them my way! - ThreadSky

jeczjan.bsky.social • 106 days ago

Looking for op-eds, podcasts, threads, and off-the-cuff comments on Trump's impact on the European tech sector. Will EU countries brain-drain the US? Will Virkunnen bring Europe tech sovereignty? If you have thoughts (yours or someone else's) on these and similar topics, please send them my way!

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boomies-n-zoomies.bsky.social•106 days ago

As someone who wouldn’t mind being part of the brain drain if it all goes sideways, I am very interested in this.

stanwis.bsky.social•106 days ago

They will not as eu incapable to act swiftly. I am all for ue but really decision making is terribly slow. Hopefully new german chacellpr will change it?

jeczjan.bsky.social•106 days ago

In the meantime, some things I found interesting:
@dmugge.bsky.social writes about lessons from Trump's win for EU's digital transformation: "If Europe wants digitalisation to bring genuine societal progress, the lodestar should not be a competitive race with the US" https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/opinion/the-trump-win-and-its-lesson-for-eu-tech-policy/

jeczjan.bsky.social•106 days ago

@pieterhaeck.bsky.social on the EC's balancing act of maintaining the EU-US relationship in tech policy and meeting expectations to enforce DSA, even if it means punishing Trump's ally, Musk https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-elon-musk-x-tech-social-media-politics-elections-eu/

jeczjan.bsky.social•106 days ago

@marietjeschaake.bsky.social asks the question "How should Europe build its own Silicon Valley?" and explains, why it shouldn't try to copy the original https://www.ft.com/content/5c49d2a9-4dc4-4fd1-b1bf-0e35cb8a4f11

jeczjan.bsky.social•105 days ago

https://megaphone.link/ASD6773277406 good conversation on the potential impact of tariffs on consumer tech - US-centric, but valuable from the European perspective

jeczjan.bsky.social•102 days ago

@iamhurst.bsky.social writes that “Europe has an opportunity to invert the transatlantic brain drain” and highlights the pressing need for capital markets union to finance the tech sector https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/13/americans-googling-move-to-europe-welcome-them-brain-drain

karnio.bsky.social•102 days ago

This is great information, if Draghi's plan comes into force, there is a chance for Europe to rebound!

jeczjan.bsky.social•102 days ago

Alex Matthews reports from Web Summit in Lisbon, where “startups are keen to see Europe keep an open approach to other markets other than the US” https://dw.com/en/donald-trump-europe-tech-startups/a-70779558

karinissharing.bsky.social•106 days ago

I find it really fishy that the German FDP with the same technocrat (how they won in 2021) and pro-Israel interests collapsed the government after the results were clear, but only resigned on Friday after a Project Esther blueprint resolution. One of the FDP quit the party and remains in government.

judah-grunstein.bsky.social•106 days ago

Given the politics of Silicon Valley, I doubt tech as a sector will hemorrhage workers. Perhaps some of the Europeans that were drawn to SV, but even there, I wonder.

Might not be what you're looking for, but more barriers to tech trade with China could have an impact on EU tech growth.

jeczjan.bsky.social•106 days ago

Thank you! Impact of the escalating trade war between the US and China definitely interests me, but I find it hard to outline potential scenarios for the EU. Will it tighten the transatlantic partnership? Or impede EU tech's growth since VC funds might be more inclined to invest "patriotically"?

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