Arjen,
sure - Philips is an excellent company.
But last time I looked about 40% of the world's electronics
output was in US, 40% in Japan, 12% in ROW (Rest of the world)
and 8% in Europe.
Sure there are excellent electronics companies in Europe, for
example PHILIPS and ST-Microelectronics.
But: which major electronics breakthrough: LCDs, PCs, Palm, IC,
LEDs, GaN, Transistor, Microsoft, happened in Europe?
I am European - so I have no intention to put Europe down -
I am trying to encourage Europe to be more aggressive in exploiting
the many opportunities. Last year I was invited to attend and give
introductory remarks at a roundtable discussion in Brussels entitled
"Europe's innovation crisis". It was attended by Directors of Nokia,
Daimler-Chrysler, Eurotechnology, IBM, Monsanto, Wall-Street-Journal,
and many other serious established firms, as well as VCs, start-ups,
government and EU representatives where many of these issues were
discussed. Let's have a beer to discuss more about these issues if
you like.
Gerhard
http://www.eurotechnology.com/
Arjen van Blokland wrote:
>
> Gerhard, maybe not Europe as a whole but Holland has been quite active in
> the electronics field. Philips is quite active in the electronics
> business. And as far as I can remember Philips has been very active in
> electronics in the past 90 years. Please correct me if I amwrong :)
> However, they almost missed the boat with the development of LCDs, since
> they tried to introduce diode technology. In 1997 they stopped this project
> and bought themselves into Hosiden. This company is now owned by Philips.
> Furthermore, Philips bought a large share in LG displays two years ago.
>
> Arjen van Blokland
>
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Received on Thu Mar 15 17:52:37 2001