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Can Europe Build a DARPA?
The U.S. system for encouraging innovative research is the envy of Europe, but it will be hard to duplicate its success.
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Anxious Europeans, fearful that they are falling behind the U.S. and China in the race to deploy disruptive new technologies, have a new buzzword: DARPA.
Germany, France, Britain, Italy and the European Union itself have all toyed with or actually created organizations claiming to mimic the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the near-legendary innovation machine credited with helping to invent everything from the internet to self-driving cars.
Now, with some of these organizations actually up and running, the question remains: Can Europe truly create its own DARPA from scratch?
| UPDATED: 16:58, Fri, Dec 18, 2020
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