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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We shouldn't be using "patents" to measure "innovation." That's what the dumb ass capitalist patent freaks do. "Oh you think intellectual property is BS, what about all the bajillion patents filed last year????? SEE ALL THAT INNOVATION!!!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I mean if we lived in a post capitalist world, yeah I'd love to see the concept of patents abolished. But in the world as it is today, they are an indirect measure of technological development.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

they are an indirect measure of technological development.

I don't even believe this is true. There is plenty of literature out there about how # of patents =/= innovation (or even tangentially relate to it).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Seems to be in line with the fact that China now tops U.S. in quantity and quality of scientific papers https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/China-tops-U.S.-in-quantity-and-quality-of-scientific-papers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Useful for a measure, not a quota.