David: Thanks for this great explanation for why you need to protect your Intellectual Property. Good way for a company to start the New Year. SPG

Intellectual property should power economic growth for myself. Non compensation, plagarism, attempts of defamation of character in effort to thrawt my vast potential & attempt to prevent myself for cashing in on my own wealth. Not others cash in on what I've produce, & attempt to ruin my name. No sharecropping here.

How stupid! The fact that companies get $ from patents doesn't mean the system is good and powers economic growth. It could be very well the contrary: it is expensive and limits innovation & creativity.

The references to "our region" are to Albany, NY and upstate NY, both areas suffering from economic depression and recovering from natural disasters. The TED talk in question was obviously intended for Albany, NY audience, probably involved with NY's recent regional competition for economic development funds. David is addressing tech development in the Albany region.

wealth is in intangible assets

Intellectual property is just monopoly. You're not "protecting creators" you are protecting profits from a company that is afraid of competition. Ideas belong to humanity. Sharing or copying ideas is how societies develop. Ideas belong to all. And if you need to use the government to prevent others from improving your idea, then you don't deserve that profit. Imagine if the weel was patented? Combustion engine, or physics concepts? Imagine if calculus was intellectual property hahahaha. Intelectual property stagnate progress and is to rob humanity future.

rise to prominence lol