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China today stands as the most aggressively innovative force in modern history. What truly matters isn't just the number of patents,it's the sheer volume of high-tech, cutting-edge developments they're churning out. These innovations are reshaping global industries at breakneck speed.
And soon enough, the West, clinging to its fading dominance, will have only one bitter word left to scream: "Stolen"
I've read some talking about many patents getting filed in China that aren't sound, just to inflate numbers for the associated institutions and universities that are submitting them.
Even if a third of those were fake and had no chance of producing a real innovation, Chinese scientists are still outputting much more than the west.
Same rhetoric as the "china is building ghost cities to inflate their gdp" then it turns out 10 years later millions live in them
A little different, a house will always be a house but a fake innovation won't necessarily become something useful down the line. It probably has an effect on local funding too, if a lab producing good work is overshadowed by a lab producing a lot more useless work just to inflate numbers, at first glance they latter group might get the funding on metrics alone.
Still, I can't imagine more than a third is doing that kind of behavior, even that seems like a lot, and this means China is still out innovating the world several times over.
I mean it's the same "perfidious asiatics just making shit up" rhetoric though
Perhaps. But by that same logic one can assume that the same is happening in other countries too, so those would also need to be adjusted downwards.