Ecosystem
The Deep Tech Brain Drain: Why Europe Loses its Best Hardware Engineers to Software
Europe is quietly losing a generation of its most valuable engineers. Every year, European universities produce world-class talent in fields that are foundational to industrial competitiveness: precision optics, micro-electromechanical systems, nanoparticle physics, advanced metrology. These PhDs and postdocs represent years of intensive public investment—funded through national science agencies, Horizon …