Comments on: Next president needs national 'innovation strategy,' author says

Innovation Nation author says the system of fostering technology innovation in the U.S. needs fixing.

[ghostofitpast]

We Tell Stories in Order to be Heard

Having made the argument that such talk about innovation amounted to little more than self-deluding story-telling in Davos, I see no reason why it should be any different on the MIT campus:

http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2008/01/language-and-fear.html

[ToddWBeaver]

No, we don't

No, we don't need a national strategy. We need to let free enterprise innovate. We need to reduce barriers for starting new companies.

We need to make America more competitive through the free market, which encourages innovation.

[scdecade]

Agree!

We absolutely do not need a national strategy.

[cflanagan]

And Rhode Island might hold the key!

I had the opportunity to interview John Kao a few weeks ago. (My Q&A is here)

When you deal with populations instead of employees and governments instead of competitors, something as simple as a ?common agenda? becomes difficult to achieve. I appreciate Kao's fervor to inspire U.S. leaders to move from just ?getting? the importance of innovation to ?getting innovation done.?

We need to start addressing the systemic nature of problems. We talked a lot about the importance of place power and how even the smallest of regions can create huge innovative output.

And full disclosure: Kao is on our research advisory council. We're in the midst of establishing the state of Rhode Island as a real-world experimentation lab for testing new business models.

[baldguy61]

Government Innovation

As long as governmental agencies think they are the source of innovative ideas, nothing much will change except possibly the size of government. Innovation comes from the garages of entrepreneurs, not the Halls of Ivy. The best thing government can do to foster innovation is get out of the way. Academics are by their very nature anti-innovation. When they see someone outside their own school coming up with an innovative product, they do all they can to squelch it as a threat to their own livelihood. Research grants in academia tend to be simply PHD full employment programs and little else.

[hotchick990052]

Hillary is ready!

Hillary is ready to lead can beat John McCain, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. has no Record to run on!

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