“We have cut off thinking in our universities.”
One major problem IMHO is that we like foreign grad students, post-docs, etc. because they work cheaper than US students and are often funded by their home countries.
it is predicted and probably true that china wants to create exportable scientists and engineers in the next century. this would allow them to be privy to ever development on the planet.
That is one major problem. The other is copyrighting. Companies try to copyright EVERYTHING. I can guarantee you that the innovation you come up with will face litigation from someone holding a copyright that is in some way similar. You can innovate, provided you have a team of lawyers behind you. This is NOT what this country was founded upon, but it’s what we’ve turned into.
Somewhere John Edwards is smiling over this fact.
Remember the old Soviet Communist saying: "The capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them with?"