The reshuffling keeps weeding out stale industries and management practices, in favor of more profitable ones. We value key employees because they might leave, and in many instances compete. We live in an age where technological progress is correlated with a nation's prosperity. Magazines such as yours keep talking about wealth being made by inventions. One key to our job growth is venture capital.
Venture capital is what creates an industry around a new idea.
There is much more venture capital in the USA than in Europe. Let me suggest an explanation. In my experience with American inventors and venture capitalists, the first thing that a sophisticated venture capitalist will ask for is the applicant's patent position. The patent is the one single guaranteed thing that the venture capital will buy. In return, the venture capitalist expects a potential return of many times his money.