Free the mind: government may help create a climate conducive to innovation but it is not its place to interfere, says David Payne

摘要

In my definition, innovation is the wandering of a free spirit, unfettered by regulation and unlimited by imagination. Innovation is answerable only to the judgement of the market and of history. It disrupts the existing order and is the toolkit of the entrepreneur. So which one of these is a description of the way that government operates? I would argue that it is the government's role to create and support an environment in which innovation can thrive to create a nation's wealth. But it is not its role to become involved in the process of innovation.