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by pmr_
5455 days ago
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More patents means more innovation, right? Because more innovative ideas have been protected, right? So, I bet they actually do measure. Just not the way any sane person would expect. But this is what always happens if a happens if you try to run something, that is hard or impossible to measure, "economically". You revert to one of the things you can trivially count and claim that more (or less) is better. If you are one of the smart ones you dabble with relative and not absolute numbers.
This is especially true for political or public institutions without any goal above "accounting of men and things" because it just doesn't matter any more to them. |
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This is not just a problem for the federal government. If I remember correctly, at a banquet hosted by my state's government in honor of local innovators, the emcee announced with pride the number of patents that had been granted to local businesses and inventors.