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As long as banks can make a profit from trading, they will continue to expand derivatives in excess of any legitimate hedging demands from non-banks, creating redundant products whose only function is to make profits for their inventors and sellers.
That is why inventors have to be protected by patents and copyrights or subsidized by governments.
For example, in 2008 Intellectual Ventures (which I helped found) established a presence in China and other countries with emerging innovation cultures in order to focus their inventors’ talent and energy.
The resulting global network of more than 400 institutions and over 4,000 active inventors has produced more patent applications than many R&D-intensive companies do.
The inventors gain access to the company’s expertise in IP development and to an international community of experienced problem-solvers.
In South Korea, LG recently launched a program to solicit invention ideas from the public, promising inventors a hefty 8% stake in the proceeds of any ideas the company commercializes.
Inventions from 1850 to 1900 may well overshadow those of the entire 20th century, but they were the result of a few inventors, such as Thomas Edison, who satisfied a small wealthy clientele.
In the 20th century, many entrepreneurs, large companies, financiers, and inventors developed products and services for the masses.
This was accomplished with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), a device developed at an IBM laboratory in Zurich whose inventors were awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in physics.
Anatole France lived in an age of great inventors like Gustave Eiffel and Thomas Edison.
Of the 163,000 patents issued by the United States in 1998, 90,000 were issued to U.S. inventors and 72,000 to foreign inventors.
Of the foreign inventors, Japanese inventors received 32,000 patents, German inventors 9,500 patents, and another 28,000 among the next 15 countries, all of which are developed economies.
It might be considered normal that developed countries would be the inventors, and developing countries the users, or new technologies.
The first two industrial revolutions were built on machines produced by great inventors in glorified barns and bought by cunning entrepreneurs who demanded property rights over the income stream “their” machines generated.
And, because we selected MENA-specific names only, many MENA inventors who have names shared with other ethnicities, such as Biblical names, were left out.
The number of patent applications filed by US inventors with MENA backgrounds was double that in the European Union.
With 1,780 patent applications, California accounted for 15% of all patents sought by MENA-linked inventors worldwide.
Only Turkey had a larger number of inventors with a MENA background submitting applications.
Such a decline would have a noticeable effect, as MENA inventors tend to be employed in technology fields that are at the core of US innovation.
For many MENA-linked inventors living and working in the US, and especially those seeking to relocate there, Mahmoud’s characterization will resonate today.
The law benefited inventors in a way that tied an invention's reward to its economic dividends.
In these cases, too many patents can drive up licensing and legal costs prohibitively, lowering the payoffs to inventors and discouraging them from innovating.
Of course, part of the strategy would be to create market incentives for new low-emission technologies, so that inventors could develop their own ideas with the prospect of large profits if those ideas are right.
China can support innovation in many ways, including by developing research-and-development clusters and helping inventors reap rewards through stronger intellectual property protection and reforms to the process of bringing firms to market.
The answer is simple: Most economic ideas are public goods that cannot be patented or otherwise owned by their inventors.
Just as inventors are given patents so that they can profit from their inventions for a limited time, so, too, authors were originally given copyright for a relatively short period – in the US, it was initially only 14 years from the first publication of the work.
Moreover, African inventors hold just 0.1% of the world’s patents, meaning that even when money is spent on science, innovation, and research, the findings rarely translate into solutions for the continent’s most immediate challenges.
Why do we need these diseased intermediaries, cryptocurrencies’ inventors ask, when we can create electronic storage and transaction systems, secure to their users and invisible to would-be controllers?
Interesting things happen – so interesting that the inventors of this idea received Nobel Prizes in economics.
US technological innovation owes as much to specific government programs, such as loan assistance or government purchases as it does to American entrepreneurs’ and inventors’ ingenuity.
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