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> Each one of those innovative ideas On their own though, right? That's not what was being asked. They wanted someway to track things that would work really we

• macspoofing 5y ago
  >On their own though, right? Yeah. When I ran a startup, you look for customers, but you also look at partnerships all the time to complement whatever you're doing. Sometimes the partnership finds you, and sometimes you find the partnership. You attend tradeshows and conferences. Sometimes your customers will point you at another company you should work with. That's all part of the market. People behind innovative technologies (inventors, and investors) are constantly looking to find ways for their tech to gain traction. >They wanted someway to track things that would work really well together and bring bigger benefits than things could on their own. OP is advocating for a top-down system where they can get a list of innovative technologies and just put them together like lego. It doesn't work that way. It's why a top-down command economy with a central authority doesn't work. There's a lot of trial and error (and failure) that happens at the bottom level and from the top, you just don't know what ultimately is worth expanding effort on and what is a waste of time. Any decision you make about what should go with what is going to be wrong. That's why the market is so powerful for innovation.