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Everyone agrees that innovation is key to solving the many challenges we face as a country, from health care to education to the
Everyone agrees that innovation is key to solving the many challenges we face as a country, from health care to education to the
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2015-03-25
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Everyone agrees that innovation is key to solving the many challenges we face as a country, from health care to education to the environment, and is fundamental to restoring economic growth and prosperity. But I would put it a slightly different way. We must find a way to rebuild the " innovation infrastructure" in this country.
The problem is not that Americans aren’t as inherently innovative as ever—we are. And the level of interest among Americans in the process of innovation—determining the best recipes to make it happen—has been skyrocketing over the past few years. For example, the number of times the word "innovation" appeared in Google news stories has increased by approximately a factor of five from Obama’s inauguration to today. Google the term "innovation" and you’ll get 342 million hits, approximately half the 676 million hits that "Obama" generates. And according to hashtags. org, innovate is trending about the same rate as deficit.
Our problem is that the system is failing our citizens. The "seed corn" of innovation—creative ideas, fundamental discoveries, and novel inventions—is no longer being generated in this country at nearly the rate it was before. Viable "seed corn" requires an innovation infrastructure in which bright minds are provided the resources and freedom to create and invent according to their passions and curiosities, to take bold risks, and even to fail. Such an innovation infrastructure thrived in the U.S. in the late 20th century as a synergistic collaboration among the institutions of academia, government, and industry. It led to the innovations that put Americans on the moon, and to the personal computer, the Internet, and the era of genomic medicine.
Tragically, in the 21st century our innovation infrastructure is completely broken. The willingness to take risks and a longer-term view has virtually disappeared from our institutions. Large corporations, driven by quarterly earnings and Wall Street, have almost completely shuttered their basic, longer-term research programs. Bright young academic researchers have learned to take the safe route in their proposals for funding by government agencies, knowing that truly radical and risky ideas are unlikely to be approved by a panel of peer reviewers. And despite the current wave of enthusiasm in Silicon Valley over the latest set of Internet IPOs, venture capitalists are no longer willing to take the long-shot risks they took in the past.
So, as the presidential contest begins to heat up, here is the message to both parties. Americans are ready and willing to embrace the goal of once again leading the world in innovation. This could be the moon shot for the next decade that unifies our country. However, we are at a tremendous disadvantage unless the innovation infrastructure of this country is rebuilt. This requires a new collaboration among government, industry, and academia—one that is suited to the challenges and opportunities of the digital age, and that restores the bold risk taking and action orientation of earlier times.
In the author’s opinion, innovation tradition in America has
选项
A、been completely lost nowadays.
B、undergone a serious trial.
C、been well kept until now.
D、been retrieved in Obama’s day.
答案
C
解析
事实细节题。根据题干关键词innovation tradition定位到第二段第一句:并不是说美国再也不像以前那样具有创新的传统了,我们现在仍然继承这样的传统。由此可知,在作者看来,美国的创新传统一直保持到现在。[C]与原文意思相符,故为答案。解答本题的关键在于理解双重否定表肯定,显然[A]对该句理解错误,故排除;其他两项均是对原文的主观臆断,故排除。
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