Innovating Innovations

ABSTRACT:
The mindset that has prevailed for the past twenty years has led to a stifling of innovation. The short term profit mentality which has gripped The United States was a major factor in the economic crash of 2008, and its effects are still with us.

ARTICLE TEXT:
The short term profit mentality in The United States has wrought devastation from sea to shining sea. It has also led to a stifling of innovation. There are hundreds of thousands of inventors who are in a position to kick start the manufacturing industry, but they have in large part been sidelined by the short sighted lack of vision in industry.

What is desperately needed to return the economy to a state of growth, job creation, and economic recovery is for business leaders and manufacturers to sit down with inventors and design engineers to reach a consensus on product development, without industry trying to pull one over on the the guy with the idea. It has become commonplace for business to try to screw the inventor, even thinking there is merit in this lack of honesty, ethics, and morals. That pretty much sums up the reason for the recent financial meltdown; greed and dishonesty. Unless we can return to some basic principles of behavior, the economy of The US, and indeed, the world, will continue to be much more scary and uncertain places than they need to be. So let's get back to basic human decency, honesty, and ethical practices, in order to all move forward.