I don't want ANYONE in charge of the "innovation budget". Innovation budgets gets us things like the Soviet Union, or SEMATECH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMATECH or MITI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MITI
That's my whole point: good ideas bubble up from the bottom with tens of millions of people using local knowledge and refining and playing with existing ideas: not intellectuals working from the top-down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA
Or CERN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN#Computer_science
Or the South Korean tech and steel industries, or...
I don't want ANYONE in charge of the "innovation budget". Innovation budgets gets us things like the Soviet Union, or SEMATECH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMATECH or MITI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MITI
That's my whole point: good ideas bubble up from the bottom with tens of millions of people using local knowledge and refining and playing with existing ideas: not intellectuals working from the top-down.