Posted on 12/19/2013 9:21:14 PM PST by Lexinom
Yeah, right.
California is the source of 1/4th of patent applications filed, and they are not all software-related (as if software patents are trivial). There's a reason why many hardware / medical equipment companies maintain a large R&D presence in California at great expense, while they shift the low level manufacturing jobs to the South and East (South Carolina).
Patents which no longer relate to who invented it but who happened to file first with the recent changes. Not every innovation gets a patent because not everyone is worried about protecting through patent or willing to share information that can then be copied.
You obviously missed my point anyway - Cali ain’t any more special than any other state.
As a consultant widely connected to companies in the US and elsewhere worldwide, many of which have large R&D facilities in California only because other locations are not as productive innovation-wise, I think I know what I’m talking about.
I saw no evidence of a lack of comprehension.
Cali ain’t any more special than any other state.
"Special" is ambiguous. Hawaii, for example, has better volcanoes. The criterion here is innovation, for which there is not a close second to California by any metric. Not all of those "innovations" are desirable, but they exist nevertheless.
I caught that, too. Disturbing, is it not, how so many think, “they” should do this or that = the gubmint...
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