<span style="display: none">Bob Metcalfe’s wisdom on patents and innovation</span>
Submitted by Danny Weitzner on Thu, 2008-04-10 21:46. ::
The original appearance of this entry was in Danny Weitzner - Open Internet Policy
Ethernet inventor, journalist and now venture capitalist Bob Metcalfe speaks on the lessons from the Internet community for the global warming arena. In looking at how to accelerate technical innovation to address climate change, Metcalfe asserts that:
“… the place to do research is in university labs. “The best vehicle for technology innovation is not patents, it’s students.”
Of course, Bob also manages to express is distain for monopoly, Bell Labs, and even Al Gore. (See report by Martin LaMonica.) I’m not sure about those but think he’s right on with respect to patents.
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