William A. Wulf Says When It Comes to Innovation, America Has Nothing to Howl About

Whether you call it design, innovation, or designnovation, one thing all Americans can certainly agree on is that it is something we want. But according to the former president of the National Academy of Engineering, William A. Wulf, we don’t have what it takes:

An innovation economy depends on intellectual property law, tax codes, patent procedures, export controls, immigration regulations and factors making up what he calls “the ecology of innovation.” Unfortunately, he argues, in the United States too many of these components are unworkable, irrelevant, inadequate, outdated or “fundamentally broken.”

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