[bananaquant]

The US has a massive advantage of being the largest economy, having a vast single market, issuing the world's reserve currency, and having unique hubs like the Bay Area attracting the best and brightest. It would be hard to replicate its success elsewhere without having some of the above prerequisites.

[aussiegreenie]

>being the largest economy, having a vast single market

America is NOT the largest market the EU is MUCH BIGGER. And it is not "America" that commercialises technology, but a small portion of California called The Valley.

[aeonik]

According to this the US GDP is 1.5 times bigger than the entire EU:

https://statisticstimes.com/economy/united-states-vs-eu-econ...