North American Startups Scale 2x Faster than European: Deep-tech startups in the United States are scaling twice as fast as European counterparts.
New company formation since 2000 has been the same in North America and Europe. However, when we look at the annual growth rates of hiring advanced-skilled, deep-tech talent, North American companies have scaled much faster than their European equivalents.
Historically, deep-tech companies have been the main destination for global talent with advanced skills. However, this is not the case in recent years, with a dramatic drop in numbers joining deep-tech companies in the past two years.
The US is the top supplier of talent to European deep-tech companies.
North American companies can attract European nationals, especially those specialising in AI, although this has tailed off in recent years. However, the main alternative source of talent for North American companies is India, and to a secondary extent, China, and wider Asian countries.
Europe shows a much higher percentage of small companies and attract up to three times more of the productive pool of advanced-skills, deep-tech talent in their country of origin than in the US. However, this is a mixed blessing as European governments increasingly execute industrial policies to promote deep-tech at home, they run the risk of creating 'zombie start-ups': employing finite, hard-to-find human resources while increasing relying on government support.
This shift to hiring early-career talent reserves a trend across the Magnificent Seven going back to 2014. It is also a general trend across deep-tech as companies, for different reasons, seek to make the most efficient use of free cash flow as they face new challenges after the COVID-19 pandemic, be they technical or financial.
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