Comments on: A DARPA for Economic Development

By: Michael Cecire

Michael Cecire — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:07:31 +0000

Very clever.

-MHC

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:09:14 +0000

I think the VIrginia Agency for Growth and Research Advancement would be a more apt acronym. VIAGRA.

By: Michael Cecire

Michael Cecire — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:02:49 +0000

Thanks for your comments. I think you misunderstand my point: injecting order through the funding of pioneer research does not make government the ’source’ of innovation any more so than NIH grants make government the ’source’ of healthcare breakthroughs or NASA contracts the ’source’ of advanced aerospace technologies. A rationalized investment system is not the replication of a national laboratory like Jlab or Fermi by any means, even if some would cite those as favorable comparisons.

Regards,

Michael

By: Fred Costello

Fred Costello — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:26:17 +0000

Mr. Cecire is under the false impression that the government is the best source of innovation. The most that government can do is stop discouraging innovation in the private sector, especially in taxation of small businesses.

By: Danny L. Newton

Danny L. Newton — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:31:37 +0000

Actual research would kill economic development. Eliminating greed and envy and substituting reason would sterilize the whole concept in much the same way as knowing the odds of winning the lottery ticket kills all reasonable plans to actually use the cash. The economy is the sum of millions of individual decisions. Just because you get the legislature to agree to something does not mean that you have enough individual decisions controlled to make something happen. The morality and ethical angle has recently become a no go zone that is an important component of individual decisions. And then there is that awful thing called the unintended consequence…