[kictanet] Innovation & Patents

[Ali Hussein]

Adam

The answer to that is not a simple one.

America has realized that innovation and patents don't only reside in inventing and creating. In the recent past process innovation has gained a lot of attention simply because America is loosing some of its competitive edge by outsourcing production entirely to Asia. This of course has other implications like China being able to copy and produce products as good or even better than the west can. I think that's possible one of the reasons that some American companies are talking production back to the Homeland.

I suspect this is both an intellectual, business and political question that will dog us for years to come. 

The other issue about patents/innovation is what role this has in a world that is increasingly 'Opensource'. So patent registration may not be the only barometer to gauge how innovative a company/country is. We may want to aggregate more sources.

Ali Hussein

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"I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots".  ~ Albert Einstein

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> On Jan 25, 2014, at 7:59 AM, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com> wrote:
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> Apple: Designed in California, Built in China
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> Kenya can follow either path but innovation/prototyping have almost nothing to do with mass production when it comes to the tech industry.  That's why it's mind numbing to hear all this talk of creating thousands of jobs through manufacturing.
> 
> Kenya is in a position to follow California with high value innovation careers but instead the government appears to be focused on following China with low-value mass labor.
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> The irony is that the low-value mass labor of electronics production in Asia is already being displaced by robots so by the time the infrastructure is here, the industry will have already moved on beyond mass labor anyway.
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>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Philip Adar <philip.adar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Listers,
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>> I am not sure if the attached statistics report is accurate, but it seems no new patents are coming up anywhere in Africa apart from South Africa? 
>> 
>> One would wonder, are we building technology parks so that we can start inventing or should it be the inventions that should drive the development of technology parks?  
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>> Philip Adar
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