Historically though, Airbus exists despite the Concorde, not because of it. The A300 project ran in parallel and there where fights over funding between Airbus

Historically though, Airbus exists despite the Concorde, not because of it. The A300 project ran in parallel and there where fights over funding between Airbus and Concorde. The French government also financed the Dassault Mercure at that time. The initial success of the A300 was also unrelated to the Concorde, so Europe would probably have gotten their successful aviation industry today either way.