The Best Way to Encourage U.S. Innovation

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7 points·ozziegooen··6 comments

Govt is not smart enough to monitor day-to-day illegal/immoral activities of big corporations. It is better to breakup big corporations into smaller entities to promote competition, innovation and to create jobs in the economy.

TL;DR = "Innovate elsewhere, which will spur the U.S. to innovate."

Who is supposed to get motivated by foreign innovation American business people who want to help the US innovate? In that case, they are already motivated without being outcompeted.

Foreigners? Why do they care about the US innovating?

The US Government? OK, so imagine that it works. Now they want to encourage innovation: how do they do it?

Ooops, I thought this article was going to answer that question, not pose it.

Several remedies have been brought up already. Every day there's a blog post about what America must do to become "more innovative", and none of the recommendations are taken. While the details are important, I believe that the first thing is getting America as a nation to consider the issue to be incredibly urgent. Only then will the government (starting from the citizens) attempt any kind of overhaul.

I believe that the first thing is getting America as a nation to consider the issue to be incredibly urgent.

That's a rather hard sell, because frankly, it ain't. America still leads the world in damn near every field. For a nation of a mere 300 million people or so, the number of new inventions, scientific discoveries, and bleeding-edge technology companies being generated by the US is way out of whack with the rest of the world. There's no point in trying to sell your solutions with some kind of false urgency, people will see through it.

Kind of makes me think that another Silicon Valley outside the U.S. could be great for the U.S.

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