China Law Blog posted an interesting piece the other day, examining an NBC World Blog article which made this assertion:

China needs to produce businesses that come up with the kind of “path-breaking innovation” that he says begins with technological breakthroughs.

“There isn’t a single innovative Chinese company,” he adds, citing the country’s low rate of patent applications. At last official count, in 2004, China still only filed 2 per cent of the world’s global patent applications. Source

I think to say there’s not even a single innovative Chinese company is going a bit far. But given fact that there are 1.3 billion+ brains out there, and factor in the ammount of money it sinks into research and development — I’m sure China’s not where they want to be right now.

Especially since Japan is sitting at the top of the list of world innovators. And they spent less to get there.

Still, I wouldn’t dare say there’s no innovation in China.

Is there a Lack of Creativity in China?

But just when you thought it was safe…

That said, I appear to have become the latest victim of a certain not-so-creative (read: content-stealin’) Chinaman.

Dude, that’s not cool.

Now if I submit my content to an aggregator like Chinalyst, no problem. But I don’t remember giving my consent before this one.

I feel so used and violated! :(
But oddly enough, there’s a strange sense of post-violation satisfaction as well. :)

Maybe I should have a smoke…

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