Feb 13, 2012
Why You Might Not Be The Only One With A Big Idea…
Back on the innovations front, this article from the New Yorker takes a look at how (and how often) big ideas come about. It turns out that with many of the great inventions (the telephone, for example), the ideas weren't the result of singular genius, but rather of which of several bright folks managed to get down to the patent office first. Author Malcolm Gladwell then tells us about the founder of Microsoft's research division, Nathan Myhrvold, who is trying to see if he can create these instances of great ingenuity.
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Jason: So, thank you!
Jason: So, thank you! Sorry, forgot to put that in my first comment.
Jason: Ah, that does answer
Jason: Ah, that does answer my question. No page number necessary.
In response to Greg, Ha-Joon
In response to Greg, Ha-Joon Chang's book "Kicking Away the Ladder" notes that a common 19th-century complaint against the United States in international fora was that its inventors copied English and German patents without mutual recognition (which was not instituted in the U.S. until the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt). I don't have the text on hand, but I can provide page numbers later.
Yes in my opinion the
Yes in my opinion the CSIS-sponsored project of PCR is a postive initiative of the Cetnre for Strategic Studies. To welecome the new ideas is virtually a good excercise as it inspires the international reserchers, writers, strategists and policy makers to contribute to the ideas treasures- the mind domain through which we can explore new meanings, new patterns and new ways to meditate and medaite regarading the postive means of liberal and candid diplomacy. And of course, the today's changing world of international relations badly requires this methodology to invent new ideas and to postively implement it in promoting transnatioanl or transcontinental peace across the North and the South.
Yeah I've been hearing lots
Yeah I've been hearing lots of stories like that. Makes sense really. With rising numbers of people on the earth, you'd expect multiple people to come up with new ideas.
I wonder what happens when people get patents on the same idea in different countries. I'm sure there are treaties covering that sort of thing, but haven't heard any stories.