“欧洲必须加强研究,以便在心理上、政治上,更确切地说,是在道德上防止欧洲人自身丧失自信。”时隔27年,法国著名经济学家罗伯特·马约林的痛切忠告绕梁难绝。但是,欧洲人的自信心并没有比27年前强多少。相反,从80年代以来,欧洲与它的两个主要贸易对手——美国和日本在高技术上的差距越来越大。除了诸如计算机辅助设计之类的技术外,欧洲几乎全面落在美日之后。 “Europe must intensify its research in order to psychologically and politically, and more precisely, prevent Europeans themselves from losing their confidence morally.” After 27 years, the painstaking advice of the famous French economist Robert Mayorga Beam absolutely. However, Europeans are not much more confident than they were 27 years ago. On the contrary, the high-tech gap between Europe and its two major trading counterparts, the United States and Japan, has been growing since the 1980s. With the exception of technologies such as computer-aided design, Europe fell almost entirely behind the United States and Japan.