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Originally Posted by ChefRamsey
How is this meaningless?
Speaking from an American point, America is doomed without it's research capacity. Do you know how weak America is without it's higher education system? That's the only reason people come here? You think they come for the low-IQ population, hamburgers and crime rates?
Research in higher education is very important. It's great to see so many PUBLIC AMERICAN universities STILL on the list. That won't be for long though. Hopefully when America collapses, the public elites turn private, so they can still help the world through research and patents.
FYI, the internet was developed at mostly American universities. The polio cure as well.
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I am not trying to patronize you, but I can't help but wonder what your level of expertise is in the world of patents. Are you a patent attorney or an IP manager?
I ask this because the answer to your question is quite complicated. Short form: the size of a patent portfolio is almost always limited by the amount of money the sponsoring organization is willing to devote to patents, not by the intellectual output of its researchers. Outright trivia can be -- and often is -- patented. It's just a matter of money.
As a footnote -- there was never a patent on the Salk polio vaccine, and there is no patent on the internet (although various small pieces have been patented). The internet grew out of the military's darpa net as much as anything . . .
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