Recently I had been to Japan on a study tour. I was fascinated by the way the Japanese society honours its inventors. The Japan Patent Office has wall reliefs, near the entrance, of Japan's greatest inventors including Kokichi Mikimoto who invented cultured pearls and Kikunae Ikeda inventor of the ubiquitous Monosodium Glutamate (Ajinomoto). The honoured inventors brief bio can be found here.
Everyone I met in Japan accepts the fact that innovation, properly secured by patents, has been one of the greatest contributors of wealth and all round prosperity.
Everyone I met in Japan accepts the fact that innovation, properly secured by patents, has been one of the greatest contributors of wealth and all round prosperity.
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