[kictanet] Innovation & Patents

[Philip Adar]

@Ali, I would want to believe that Innovation/Patents means much more than
programming or Software. I thought it should start from abstract ideas,
something not seen before or not done before...



On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

> 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
>
> +254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113
>
> "I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will
> have a generation of idiots".  ~ Albert Einstein
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jan 25, 2014, at 7:59 AM, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com> wrote:
>
> Apple: Designed in California, Built in China
>
> 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.
>
> 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,
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> Philip Adar
>>
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Philip Adar
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