But it may be, I suggest to Blow, that a lot of video game designers are familiar only with other video games – meaning the intellectual pool drawn from isn't deep.
The GOP, once a relatively sane and stable political platform, with solid -- if wildly uptight -- principles, now wallowing in the shallow end of the moral and intellectual pool for its basic survival.
Legendary Comics, announced in 2010, is partly an effort to build a pool of intellectual property.
Whereas good universities attract trainee teachers from across the UK, who may then teach at schools locally, "if you're just doing teacher training in schools you're limiting your intellectual gene pool," he says, because candidates will be local.
Not surprisingly, given the richness of its intellectual gene pool, the field is constantly evolving.
A year after buying 1,500 patents from Microsoft, Xiaomi is digging into the global intellectual property pool once again.
He characterized the world of police leadership as "very incestous," saying bad ideas spread and "the intellectual gene pool gets small".
These early writings provided the impetus for a number of youthful intellectuals to pool their resources and promote shared ideals by forming literary associations.
In meeting that pent-up demand for investment and consumption goods, the emerging economies can draw more or less freely on sophisticated technology developed over time and at great expense by the advanced economies, including the latter's intellectual property, their pool of highly skilled human capital and their academies.
Though communal living has its downsides – Linda Grant writes about the pretentious political dogma and macrobiotic obsessions of a hippy commune in her novel We Had It So Good, while what went on in RD Laing's living experiments was altogether more disturbing – I'm convinced that witnessing how resources, material and intellectual, could be pooled at such a young age has shaped me as an adult.
Europe will lose jobs as well as a precious pool of intellectual property and value creation.
