more on todays wp - for IP - role of innovation in makingeconomycompetitive,finland; contrast us trends

["David Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Dana Blankenhorn"<dana () a-clue com>
Sent: 14/07/05 12:02:18 PM
To: "dave () farber net"<dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on todays wp - for IP - role of innovation in makingeconomycompetitive,finland; contrast us 
trends

Anyone familiar with the Internet's history knows that what John Kemp says 
is at least somewhat misleading.

The government does fund basic R&D heavily, through military agencies like 
DARPA, and through civilian agencies like NASA.

Some of that has gone into direct hires, some has gone to Universities. The 
Internet is a direct result of this process for fostering innovation.

We have had many notes on this list in the last few years bemoaning the fact 
that this system is under systematic budget attack by the government, which 
is now taking a more short-sighted view of its DARPA funding efforts, and a 
far more political view on its private funding efforts.

It would be great to know the standards used by the Finnish agencies. I 
suspect they are fairly objective, based on cutting-edge potential and 
possible profitability.

Personally I would love to trust our government. I can't right now. But if 
we had a more honest, less corrupt, and more transparent governmental 
system, it would be good to return to our own version of the Finnish model, 
which we ran as recently as the 1990s.

Dana Blankenhorn   danablankenhorn () mindspring com
Mooreslore Blog    http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/


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