The Quest to Protect Creative Policy Ideas

THE QUEST TO PROTECT CREATIVE POLICY IDEAS
[SOURCE: Chronicle of Philanthropy, AUTHOR: J.H. Snider]
[Commentary] Congress often lacks the political motivation to find and champion good public-policy ideas out of fear that they would offend powerful special interests. Another explanation for the lack of innovation by Congress is that think tanks and college scholars put too little money into developing such ideas because public-policy ideas can easily be stolen without legal or social sanction. It is time for foundations, which sponsor the bulk of this research, to change the rules of the game so that the incentives are to create rather than plagiarize socially valuable public-policy innovations.
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