How many agricultural innovations have been given away to other countries?
How many electronic innovations have been given away to other countries?
How many health/medical innovations have been given away to other countries?
Or at least sold cheap, fractions of pennies on the dollar.
America: The Freebie capitol of the world
“How many agricultural innovations have been given away to other countries?
How many electronic innovations have been given away to other countries?
How many health/medical innovations have been given away to other countries?”
Absolutely spot on. in a competitive world you have to benefit from what you do best. We don’t. For example, we spend billions and billions of dollars on research and development of drugs and biomedical devices in the US. Instead of making this a focus of US exports around the world, we let foreign governments turn a blind eye to (or perhaps participate in) blatant patent infringement. At the same time we decide politically that we need to take apart our medical system, which in large measure drives the innovations in the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors.
In general I think we have become self-flagellating apologists to the world and have stopped making the ongoing efforts that are necessary to protect ourselves against a world that has long been envious of us. Many have wanted us to fall for a long time. One of the best weapons they’ve had against us is our own sense of shame and guilt. It’s gone too far and has to stop.
Manufacturing tech, even in strategic industries has been shipped overseas for nothing. When an item sits in Chinese customs it is analyzed to be copied. There are no patents to the Red Chinese.
Correct.
And were you also aware the still ongoing policy of NASA to allow foreigners to copy all of our blueprints and schematics for spacecraft and rocket designs?
And were you aware that as part of a round of GATT that set up the WTO that Boeing was forced to relinquish proprietary technology, to EADS/AIrbus for butkus?
I remember a Nigerian immigrant who was under arrest and being interviewed stating “it is so EASY to steal in america.”