Mostly the British…and maybe Germans…
I know there are many other things including political ideologies and cultural movements like Democracy, Renaissance, Age of Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, etc.
But Technological Innovation…? What is the key to being successful in technological innovation? Thinking outside the box?
What do you think Chines will do with technological innovation in the near future?
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#1 by THATS MY PURSE! on January 22, 2012 - 10:02 pm
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Yes, and giving people the freedom to persue whatever projects they desire often leads to advancement in many fields.
#2 by sociald on January 22, 2012 - 10:58 pm
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Yes it is/was .. except for the last copule decades.
There is more to it than that though. Its true the vast majority of innovation in the last few hundred years came from the USA, Germany, UK, France and Italy.
The USA capitalized on it because for a long time we used the technology in manufacturing and other countries bought what we made , things they didnt have the technology to make.
But then we exported the manufacturing, and to a large degree the technology also
and have become a consumer society. And I would imagine for western european countries
its a similar story.
And when that happens , in a socio-economic sense, it causes stagnation and leads to trouble or even collapse.
The key to technological innovation is partly education and partly creating the economic environment in which entrepeneurial innovation thrives. And in the USA’s case both of those factors have dwindled.
#3 by meg on January 22, 2012 - 11:52 pm
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YES. But there are reasons why these innovations were not put to use in most non western countries. Japan is proof that a country can rapidly catch up using borrowed technology and then become innovative and now South Korea is doing it even faster and so is China, but they started later.
The improvement in technology has mostly been in making stuff, but as the goods sectors of the economy becomes more efficient, there is an increasing fraction of jobs in services. For the most part we deliver services like we always have, person to person, and so technology is no longer an engine of economic growth in developed countries. Thinking out side of the box is needed, but most people do not know how to do it, even thinking inside the box is more than they can manage, But as long as we are concentrating the production of goods , we will not be doing what is needed.