This is a pretty stupid article.
This is what it ultimately comes down to: “We need to aggressively recruit talented engineers, scientists and tech entrepreneurs from overseas.”
Another pro-immigration screed.
Moving patent time to 5 years is ludicrous. The current 20 years starts at filing so that it is never 20 years exclusivity. It can be as low as five for something marketed. It often takes 5 years to get responses from the PO.
He selectively removes certain companies or sectors from economic considerations and then talks how bad things are without those data included.
But he does not do the same thing when talking about the US being 30th in math. Why does he not selectively removed data in that assessment! How does the US fare if black and Hispanic student data is not included?
“How does the US fare if black and Hispanic student data is not included?”
Good luck ever getting your hands on that statistic.
RE: But he does not do the same thing when talking about the US being 30th in math. Why does he not selectively removed data in that assessment!
I was looking at the PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) Test scores here in the USA compared to the countries that scored very highly (i.e., Hongkong, Singapore, Taiwan and Korea ) and I notice one thing -— some of the schools in Long Island, NY ( Nassau County, population: 1.3 million ) actually are HIGHER than those countries. However, the rest of the other schools in many other districts, SUCK to say the least.
So, we do have schools that are excellent in this country. All we need to do is bring the other schools to their level.
Little known fact.
Children of Japanese descent in America outperform Japanese children in Japan.
Children of Swedish descent in America outperform Swedish children in Sweden.
And so on through every other identifiable group. Only exception is Finnish children, who do slightly better that American children of Finnish descent.
The difference is simply our mix of ethnic groups compared to those of the other countries.
Along this line, white, black and Hispanic students in Texas all outperform their ethnic counterparts in Wisconsin, but based on the average for each state, WI is better. The reason, of course, being the much smaller number of minority students in WI.
The great Iowahawk wrote one of the greatest smackdowns of all time on this issue. On Paul Krugman. A real delight.
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/longhorns-17-badgers-1.html