Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Innovation in China, prof Stephen L Sass, emeritus scientist and global historian

The State does not make innovation , the individuals do. 

While government support for R&D is essential, innovation is typically the product of a bottom-up approach. A classic example is the letter Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, arguing that nuclear fission could be the basis of a powerful bomb, which led to the Manhattan Project.

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