http://blog.pharmtech.com/2010/01/12/a-global-scorecard-for-scientific-innovation/ The blog of Pharmaceutical Technology magazine Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:25:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.pharmtech.com/2010/01/12/a-global-scorecard-for-scientific-innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-28200 Dale B. Halling Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:05:34 +0000 http://blog.pharmtech.com/?p=2401#comment-28200 If OCED really wants to encourage innovation it will advocate repealing the laws are regulations that have been passed since 2000 that are killing innovation. The incredible innovation of the 90s was based on technology start-up companies built on intellectual capital, financial capital, and human capital. All three of the pillars have been under attack since 2000. Our patent laws have been weakened reducing the value of intellectual capital. Sarbanes Oxley has made it impossible to go public reducing financial capital for start-ups and the FASB rules on stock options have made it harder to attract human capital to start-ups. The Decline and Fall of the American Entrepreneur: How Little Known Laws and Regulations are Killing Innovation http://www.amazon.com/Decline-Fall-American-Entrepreneur-Regulations/dp/1439261369/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262124667&sr=8-1, explains these problems in more detail. If OCED really wants to encourage innovation it will advocate repealing the laws are regulations that have been passed since 2000 that are killing innovation. The incredible innovation of the 90s was based on technology start-up companies built on intellectual capital, financial capital, and human capital. All three of the pillars have been under attack since 2000. Our patent laws have been weakened reducing the value of intellectual capital. Sarbanes Oxley has made it impossible to go public reducing financial capital for start-ups and the FASB rules on stock options have made it harder to attract human capital to start-ups. The Decline and Fall of the American Entrepreneur: How Little Known Laws and Regulations are Killing Innovation http://www.amazon.com/Decline-Fall-American-Entrepreneur-Regulations/dp/1439261369/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262124667&sr=8-1, explains these problems in more detail.

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