I have always associated innovation with patents.
It’s the classic vision of the lone, wild-haired inventor in a grimy white lab coat putting himself and his family (assuming they’re still hanging around – he spends all of his time in the basement tinkering and cursing) through abject poverty until he finally hits on something useful and a huge conglomerate buys his invention and he moves to a mansion.
Thanks to something called a patent.
Patents Make Things Valuable Through Scarcity
Patents....