Better Innovation
- Volunteers – Every person has the ability to think of solutions to our most pressing or mundane problems. We have organized a group of about 30 individuals who volunteer their time to help brainstorm and research solutions to problems. A majority of these individuals are retired professionals with doctoral level degrees. This same system can be implemented in many areas where people are passionate about helping improve the world.
- Five year patent protection – One of the obstacles to innovative problem solving is the necessity of applying for patent protection. The process is very time consuming and very expensive. As a consequence many people with a good idea are afraid to take the idea to market and it sits on the proverbial shelf and dies. To help minimize this obstacle we propose a special patent program which would provide five years of protection and a reduction in the process cost. In exchange for the reduced process cost the product will be required to be manufactured in the United States and would be protected for only five years rather than the current standard. We feel this would bring more innovative solutions to market and provide for the creation of more jobs to commercialize the products.
- Innovation and Invention competition in schools – Innovative thinking is not always a natural ability, it can be taught and encouraged. We feel one of the best places to promote and teach innovative thinking is in our schools. To help encourage this we are planning an Innovation and Invention Competition. We want to spark the idea that everyone can contribute good ideas to solve our problems.
- Discussion of the first living cell – We believe the world and all life, including ourselves, were created by our Father in Heaven. We also believe He used natural biological processes, even evolution, in the creation of all the great diversity of life on earth. It concerns us that many of our children are taught in our schools we are here by chance and are the result of chemicals randomly coming together in the primordial ooze billions of years ago. Without forcing our belief system on anyone we feel it is important to open a candid discussion in academia and the classroom about the origin on the first living cell. There are so many biological processes that must take place for there to be life. We would like to see this line of scientific questioning and discussion take place in our classrooms so the students can begin to form their own ideas about how life began. We do not propose Divine Intervention or Creationism or Evolution be discussed or promoted, we do propose the scientific and biologic facts about how the first living cell be discussed.