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Do You Think You Need Formal Education for Patents?
I was wondering if you had any views on patents although I guess we've said that that it's probably we are where we are. There is some evidence at least in history that formal education wasn't really a barrier to invention and in fact lack of formal education might have led you to more invention. It does seem that you need a little bit more specialized knowledge in certain areas but like you say you do need actually this sensitivity to cross domain ideas which is sort of they're not formal education in whatever it is this other domain is. If we knew a good way to get to instruct a bureaucracy to implement that kind of thing that would be idealbut we haven't figured out a way to do
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