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What Would Actually Change the Game? Europe's Scale Infrastructure, 2027–2031
Part 8 of The European Scale-Up Question: can Europe's best companies scale globally and keep their strategic centre in Europe? A five-test scorecard.
Jörn Menninger
Nov 526 min read
Islands of Excellence: Why Europe's Strong Startup Hubs Don't Add Up
Europe has world-class startup hubs. Zurich and Upper Bavaria are in the EU's top 5 of 241 regions. But on joint patents, Europe's hub network scores 0.40 against America's 0.68.
Jörn Menninger
Oct 822 min read
E 769 — Talent Without Recycling: The European Scale-Up Question, Part 4
Europe's scale-up problem isn't a talent shortage — it's a knowledge-recycling gap. How founder factories, operator density, and ESOP reform decide who scales globally.
Jörn Menninger
Aug 1323 min read
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