tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817171247555815363.post734966422935019620..comments2024-03-26T05:57:44.937+00:00Comments on True Economics: 21/8/2013: Ireland's Potemkin Village (Knowledge) EconomyTrueEconomicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350536454228478974noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817171247555815363.post-86471888754549059722013-09-27T14:03:01.499+01:002013-09-27T14:03:01.499+01:00Funny thing - MNCs actually ARE delivering patents...Funny thing - MNCs actually ARE delivering patents. Irish businesses - less so... irish academia even less...TrueEconomicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350536454228478974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817171247555815363.post-80521157249245578252013-09-27T13:03:10.331+01:002013-09-27T13:03:10.331+01:00Most R&D tax credits are claimed by MNC for de...Most R&D tax credits are claimed by MNC for development rather than research and therefore you won't see any bounce by looking at patents.Depends what the purpose of the tax credits is. If its subsidising MNC to move away from mfg towards higher value development and commercialisation then it does help but it will mean very little to true research. Isn't that what the likes of SFI are funded to do?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817171247555815363.post-9694321381010163642013-08-21T21:36:52.497+01:002013-08-21T21:36:52.497+01:00I always bring it back to someone such as Edward C...I always bring it back to someone such as Edward Conard in the United States, who observed that there, very well paid people were walking away from jobs in Google and such, to found new startup companies of their own in the past ten years. <br /><br />While here in Europe, the average youth employed in some poorly paying private or public sector job (where Conard argues, there should be even more motivation to walk away and start up something for oneself), there are very, very few who leave those jobs. <br /><br />Even with huge mass unemployment now in Europe, still the volumes of start up companies is small compared to north America. Conard would ask the question, what is up with this? He argues that perhaps here in Europe, the idea is to stretch, and stretch the system to breaking point by trying to set up everybody in some kind of a 'secure job'. <br /><br />I.e. To divide the labour market up in to smaller and smaller pieces, giving lots and lots more 'smaller' jobs for people to do, . . . and in that environment, where people tend to define themselves, their role, responsibilities etc in such a minute way, . . it doesn't lend itself at all to people walking off and 'inventing the future'. <br /><br />Like, you would never get a Steve Jobs, a Bill Gates or a Jim Clark kind of character here in Europe. Maybe that is no bad thing, because they are all ruthless individuals in their own ways. But it is pointless publishing policy documents about 'breaking moulds' and extending boundaries, . . if the emphasis in society is just to fit in, somehow, some way into the smaller picture, rather than laying out the broad brush strokes for some larger picture and plan. <br /><br />What happens here in Ireland, and all over Europe, is that once you have snuggled into some tiny crack in the system, everyone gets right off your back, and you become a real citizen, with pride in oneself. And it becomes all about the Vincent Browne show, and how to divide out, and who should get what in the public pie. Nothing else really enters the conversation here. <br /><br />Innovation ? ? ? Huh ? ? ? Brian O' Hanlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09185216066875647495noreply@blogger.com