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Re: John Calfee on Government-Sponsored Innovation

maki0291ac — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:40:54 -0000

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Re: John Calfee on Government-Sponsored Innovation

tiberiu84 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:41:46 -0000

Many things are promised nowadays by the government, but we should have some kind of improved addiction treatment program for the young so tempted by drugs people of this nation, but from my point of view, things will not change as long as drug lords are involved with high profile politicians.

Re: John Calfee on Government-Sponsored Innovation

eee_eff — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:42:31 -0000

There are two problems with government and nonprofit R&D as a substitute for the traditional for-profit industry. One lies in what the nonprofit sector has not tried to do; the other lies in what it has tried to do.

hat about the third category, which is what the public sector has done, but which you do not give them credit for. In the excellent book Steal this Idea, Michael Perelman documents how research conducted by the government at the NIH is handed over to private companies for next to nothing. Have you read that book? It is well worth reading in its entirety.

We have to remember that no laws, regulations, or traditions have prevented the public research system from inventing the drugs we need if it was really capable of doing that and no one else was,

But it has--breakthrough drugs like Penicillin and treatments like MRI were developed by publicly funded research, not at a private corporation.