Is Europe a technologically unsuccessful continent?

[Roy]

Which European countries are socialist ?

Sweden?

[arkas]

No but competing on a global scale in the computer age yes, no European country is in the same league as America, Japan and South Korea.

[tekken999]

Which European countries are socialist ?

Perhaps not by strict definition that they are socialist but on the same note many have popular socialist parties and social policies in place

[jingorex]

Yes.

[The Lawspeaker]

Perhaps not by strict definition that they are socialist but on the same note many have popular socialist parties and social policies in place

That's not socialism. Do you even know what socialism is ? Can you describe socialism ?

[The Lawspeaker]

Sweden?

Socialism, as an economic system, is dead and apart from the Eastern Block - we never had any socialist countries in Europe. Europe has free market economies (sometimes even more free than the United States as several Northern European countries don't even have minimum wage laws) with less bureaucracy and more ease of doing business than the United States. Some, like my own country but also Ireland, Monaco and Luxembourg are tax havens for multinationals.

[Blondie]

Which European countries are socialist ?

Belorussia is still communist.

[The Lawspeaker]

Belorussia is still communist.

Everybody always forgets that place...

[ixulescu]

This is a list of the world's largest technology companies by revenue. It seems that since the bankruptcy of Nokia, Europe has not again had any technological company among the most important in the world. Is there a future in a continent that technologically is a failure? What do you think? Discuss.

This has to do with the way European banking is structured, not with the technology companies themselves.

There are important European products that are used throughout the world, like the Linux operating system (that runs in the background of any Android phone) or ARM processors (found on most phones and tablets). But Europe will not capitalize on these technologies because of its weak banking and investing environment - weak compared to the US or Japan, or even China.

[Deneb]

Germany got SAP,Siemens and Telekom.

SAP is very promising

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_SE

SAP is doing well. It's the 7th world largest and 1st European software company (don't fool yourself with Accenture, this is really an American company incorporated in Ireland for the purpose of not paying taxes).