Innovation and Risks for Researchers

I [chrisjhorn] spoke this morning at the Irish Universities Association event on corporate governance.   The main theme of my presentation was the dangers inherent in poor stewardship of intellectual property and the processes therein.  This in turn is one major reason for the urgent need for a national intellectual property protocol.

Innovation is riskful.

Failure is an anathema. We have had outrageous failures in our banks, our health system, the Roman Catholic Church, in corporate governance, in public procurement and in regulatory oversight. Failure is devastating and unacceptable when a priori we have no reason to expect any deficiency. Failure may however be acceptable, if perhaps disappointing, when we know in advance that a venture may fail. For example, we accept failure in sport is because we cannot reasonably expect perpetual success.

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