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How much credit should an inventor get if their invention doesn’t work, they can’t make it work, they go out of business and stop working on it, then someone el
by mikeash 9y ago
How much credit should an inventor get if their invention doesn’t work, they can’t make it work, they go out of business and stop working on it, then someone else comes along and figures out how to use it for something useful? I’m not sure what the right answer is exactly, but it seems right to give the second person a substantial part of the credit at least.
- maxerickson 9y agoThe mother/parents was/were the one that decided it was a good idea. The doctor and university were willing to do the paperwork or whatever. It's not really even an invention, it's a human protein that was probably identified in academic research a long time before the company decided to produce it and see if it could be used as a treatment.
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