Industrial research labs were invented in Europe but made the U.S. a tech superpower
Feb 24, 2026
How did the United States overtake Europe to become the world's technological leader within just a few decades? A new study by researcher Frank Neffke from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) and colleagues from the Growth Lab at Harvard University published in the journal Research Policy suggests that
the answer lies not primarily in technological breakthroughs but in a fundamental shift in how innovation itself was organized. ...read more read less