Yet specialists often have the most to lose from new technologies that displace the old ones they know so well, and may want to block innovation.
In its university system Greece hews closer to the worst aspects of the Ottoman past (such as bureaucracies that block innovation) than does Turkey, with its fine range of public and private campuses.In health, schooling and other public services, bad state provision fuels a huge under-the-counter market creating in turn vested interests opposed to any change.
Regulations supporting effective disclosure, as well as improved audit, accounting and risk-rating standards, should be preferred to restrictive regulatory controls that block innovation and growth.
Patents are increasingly used to block innovation in courtrooms rather than create innovations in the marketplace, and we saw this problem reach epic proportions in 2011.
We can safely assume that as long as it is economically rational for single companies to block innovation, it will continue to happen.
Packer never explains how Silicon Valley could operate any other way, but industry unions do have a plan to stop the march towards inequality: block innovation.
But Facebook can't let the ubiquity and utility of its core social network block innovation in its mobile communication apps.
In the Valley, we demand more from our southern neighbors, wondering why content is priced at uncompetitive rates, why it's so hard to get a deal done, and why lobbyists are hired to block innovation.
Such metrics further block innovation because they encourage scientists to work in areas of science that are already highly populated, as it is only in these fields that large numbers of scientists can be expected to reference one's work, no matter how outstanding.
Incumbents can block innovation for a long time.
