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> Good luck to raise non IT capital in tech without patents
Again, this wouldn't be a problem if there were no patents
No. Lets take the most extreme example. Medicine. Development and clinical trials cost you more than a billion. Why would I risk this? I let you develop it, I let you do the clinical trials and then just copy it. Even better. I can always sell cheaper than you since I don't have to recover investment costs.
The patents are the only incentives for the investors to accept the risk.
My wife has worked for a series of VC funded immunotherapy startups. No government money funding them. If there were no biotech patents it’s hard for me to see why anyone would invest hundreds of millions into these tiny companies. The money doesn’t go to salaries - it goes to equipment, supplies, and trials.
Central planners spending other people’s money cannot possibly compete with the private system.
Most of the primary research is NIH money handed out to university researchers. But then easily as much money is spent in human trials and that’s privately funded.
It is people risking money in order to earn huge profits that makes the system work. The government spends enormous amounts of money on basic research, much of it ineffectively IMO. Bringing cutting edge therapies to the market was, is, and always will be through the entrepreneurial system. Believing bureaucrats can accomplish the same thing is naïveté.
> Good luck to raise non IT capital in tech without patents
Again, this wouldn't be a problem if there were no patents