See, for example, the scaling innovation structures inherent in Quantified Self that has engaged individuals so efficiently in large self-monitoring studies that it now spawns startups and attracts partnerships with organizations as diverse medical device firms and university research centers.
If this deal spawns a fiscal union within Europe, as it may well, that will not be because Mrs Merkel and her peers took a bold, strategic and transparent decision to create one, but because they ran away from more immediate forms of pain (see article).