Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.
Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.
Innovation means change.
An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.
My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone.