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The Innovation Desert Germany
A forty-year journey — Hans Ley & Claude
Essay I
Valley of Death
The gap in the innovation system
Essay II
The Chicken-Egg Problem
Why market analysis fails for breakthrough technologies
Essay III
Tough Luck!
The system's most convenient lie
Essay IV
On the Doorbell Wire
40 years of digital backwardness
Essay V
Dull Thinking
On BOFIS — a German disease
Essay VI
López' Warriors
How Germany cannibalized its value creators
Essay VII
The Mother of All Industries
How Germany let its machine tool industry starve
Essay VIII
The Mediocre Excellence
How Germany learned to spend billions on organized self-deception
Essay IX
The Birth of Industry from the Destructive Spirit of War
On the unholy alliance of Mars and Mercury
Essay X
Münchhausen's Heirs
Why you can't pull yourself out of the swamp by your own hair
Postscripts · January 2026
Essay XI
It Doesn't Matter Who Governs
On the bureaucratic immune system
Essay XII
Democracy as Sacred Monstrance
When the ritual becomes an end in itself
Essay XIII
Life as Experiment
On the path upward while Germany descends
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