Regional Innovation |
نواوری منطقهای |
Establishes policies to encourage and develop innovation in a region and combat “brain drain” (resting on the theory that innovation has a regional, locational dimension).
"The Pirate Party" of Sweden is growing in popularity. Its platform: "to reform copyright law, abolish the patent system, and strengthen the right to privacy."
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Iran, as a country, does not appear to be innovative or inventive. Let's not even compare it to America or Japan. Let's compare it to Uganda. Using "patent applications" as a measure of innovation, and using
UN data current through 2002, we see that Iran, a middle income country with a population of almost 70 million, had, in 2001, applied for 993 patents (their maximum, by that date), while Uganda, a poor country with a population of 24 million, applied for 150,408 patents. Big difference.
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